That works perfectly - thanks Andy.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

You can not directly link the scales properties to a cell.
What you could do with VBA is to add code to a worksheet event that
updates the scale property.

For example this assumes the scale value is in E1. E1 contains a formula
that outputs 20 or 100 dependent on some test related to country selection.

Private Sub Worksheet_Calculate()

ActiveSheet.ChartObjects(1).Chart.Axes(xlValue).Ma jorUnit = _
Range("E1").Value

End Sub

Cheers
Andy

Ant wrote:
I have a graph which is linked to a range which changes (through data
validation and SUMIF's). There are several Countries which have varying data
totals which the graph picks up. ie for Country 1 the scale maximum is 100
and for Country 2 the scale maximum is 20. What does not automatically change
however is the scale major unit. If this is manually changed to 20 for
Country 1 it remains that way for Country 2 which is of no use as with a
scale maximum of 20, I need the scale major unit to be say, 2. I am looking
for a way to change the scale major unit automatically. I would like to use
similar code below attached to a data validation cell;

ActiveChart.Axes(xlValue).MajorUnit = 20

Is it somehow possible to link the number 20 above to a cell? That way I can
have a simple formula which can be linked to the range total eg 100 and
divide it by 5. This would give me 20 for Country 1 and 2 for Country 2.

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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