How odd. It works fine but only if you do it like this

On Error Resume Next
' set the error bars
On Error Goto 0

Maybe one for Andy Pope !

Regards,
Peter T

"Paula Galloway" wrote in message
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Has anyone had success with creating custom error bars in Excel 2007 from
VBA?

In prior versions I was able to do so with

ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(4).ErrorBar Direction:=xlY, Include:= _
xlPlusValues, Type:=xlCustom, Amount:="=MySheet!R2C17:R4C17"

When I try that code in 2007 I get error 1004, Application-defined or
object-defined error.