Download the Name Manager from http://jkp-ads.com. It has functionality far
beyond Excel's native name interface. I believe there's a version for Excel
2007.

- 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'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?