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Default PivotCharts, PivotTables, I'm going insane

Pardon my lengthy post, but I don't see an alternative to describing in
detail my quandary dilemma.

What I am hoping to accomplish:
Refresh/Update multiple tables and charts by changing one piece of data.
Whether this is possible, I do not know - please read on if you have time.

Project:
Take survey data and provide charts and tables summarizing responses by
total company response, response by department, and response by length of
service.

Data is organized as follows:
78 total questions were in the survey; each question is a column heading.
640 employees responded to the survey; each employee has a row.

76 out of the 78 questions have responses of agree, disagree, neutral,
strongly agree, strongly disagree.
The remaining two questions ask for the respondents department and length of
service (organized by less than one year, 1 to 3, 3 to 5, greater than 5)
respectively.

There are no numbers in this spreadsheet. It is all agree, disagree, etc.

For each question, I must provide:
1. a pie chart breaking down the total response to each question
2. a bar chart organized by department and response to each
3. a bar chart organized by length of service and response to each

Creating the individual charts is not a problem. However, for the sake of
saving time (not having to create 200+ charts individually), I was hoping to
figure a way to get the questions (first row of data) as a drop down or
something so I could simply create the charts/tables once for one question,
print, select question 2 from a drop down/update charts, print, select
question 3, update, print, etc.

It may be a matter of reorganizing the spreadsheet, I'm not certain.

I greatly thank you in advance, both for reading through this monstrosity of
a post and for providing any suggestions.

Best regards,
Brad