Hi,

Not sure whether the code you have works for you or not. But one thing I
would point out, and I hope it's not too obvious, is that the plot area
will be constrained by the chartarea. It will not raise an error but
also it will not size the plotarea as intended.

Perhaps start by increasing the chart area by 120% of the required plotarea.

Cheers
Andy

Steve wrote:
Can anyone recommend a procedure for creating large format scaled charts?

Ideally, I'd like the y-axis to have a scale of 5 inches per unit and an
x-axis of 1 inch per 500 units.

Ive used the following macro to set the plot area, but i'd like to automate
it a bit based on data ranges.

Sub ResizePlotArea()
'
' Resize Plot Area Macro
' Macro recorded 6/8/2006 by steve'

'
'Selection.Width =(desired width*72) +36 (36 dependant on axis font)
'Selection.Height =(desired height*72)+25 (25 dependant on axis font)

ActiveChart.PlotArea.Select
Selection.Left = 20
Selection.Top = 108
Selection.Width = 360
Selection.Height = 720
End Sub

Thanks.

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info