I'll second Larry's findings but at least in my case there are some
interesting complexities in the dynamic behaviour where some named variables
refer to other named variables that may be on a different sheet (such as
"variables" and "rollups" sheets). So the workbook scope is actually much
more ideal (and the only one that really works right now).
One side question, why is that once a variable is created you can no longer
alter its scope? I have tons of variables and recreating, renaming, and
deleting them all to arrive at a more tightly scoped set of variables would
be daunting to say the least.
"Larry F" wrote:
Jon,
I did as you suggested, but while the reverence doesn't get corrupted, the
graph still doesn't update to reflect the recalculated data in the named
range???
"Jon Peltier" wrote:
When you define your range names in the first place, the dialog has a Scope
dropdown, which initially says Workbook. Pick the worksheet name (Data) from
this dropdown to define a worksheet-scoped name. This one wasn't corrupted
in my tests. The reference never changes to the workbook, but stays linked
to the worksheet.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"Ken Snyder" wrote in message
...
I may not fully understand your reponse but if I did then I'm not sure this
solves my problem. Basically what I do originally is specify something
like:
=Data!rChartDates
Where "Data" is the tab that has the data in it. If I go back to the
chart's
properties after making this change it has automatically updated the
reference to look like this:
='F&O Analysis v2.1.xlsx'!rChartDates
It will stay with this type of reference until i close the spreadsheet and
reopen. At which point i get the behavior I explained and the reference
now
looks like:
=[0]!rChartDates
If i go in and replace the [0] with "Data" then it relinks and becomes
dynamic. THis, however, is not very <idynamic</i if you see what i mean.
:^)
"Jon Peltier" wrote:
I have seen a similar problem, not with the original dynamic chart, but
with
a copy made of a dynamic chart. If the dynamic names are scoped to the
workbook as yours are, the references to the workbook names are
obliterated,
converted to [0]. The corrupted references can only be seen through the
Edit
Source Data dialog, because the series formula is not longer displayed.
I discovered two things.
1. If you use worksheet-scoped names, this corruption doesn't occur.
2. If you save, close, and reopen the workbook with corrupted charts, the
corruption has healed itself, and the charts are as good as the
originals.
I've also filed a very detailed bug report on this behavior.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"Ken Snyder" wrote in message
...
I did some googling this weekend and found lots of helpful advice on how
to
make dynamic charts with named ranges and OFFSET, INDEX, and MATCH
functions.
Anyway, I was able to successfully create the dynamic charts that I
wanted
by
pointing the series data at a named range. For instance the data range
represented on my x-axis is derived from the named variable
"rChartDates"
which is defined as:
=OFFSET(allDates,0,MATCH(StartDate,allDates,1)-1,1,MATCH(EndDate,allDates,1)-MATCH(StartDate,allDates,1)+1)
This works fine and when I put a reference into my chart I put the
following:
='F&O Analysis v2.1.xlsx'!rChartDates
This too works fine but when I close the spreadsheet and reopen it it
has
lost all dynamic behavior and now the property of the chart looks like
this:
=[0]!rChartDates
Any ideas?