Jon- thank you for your reply.
Since my workbook is also 'misbehaving' (bloat, plus this graph source data
reference issue), do you have any suggestions for the easiest way to rebuild
a workbook? I'm not sure if I should just copy/paste each sheet into a fresh
workbook (fixing formulas along the way so they don't point to the old
workbook), or if there is anything else I need to do.
Thank you for any advice,
Keith
"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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'workbookname.xls'!named_range
and
'worksheetname'!named_range
both still autotransform to
workbookname.xls!named_range
Probably because your name is a workbook-level name. You can access a
workbook level name in some cases (i.e,. chart series formulas and source
data input boxes) even by prefixing with the worksheet name.
The other day I rebuilt a client's workbook, which was misbehaving (names,
bloat, array formulas, and much more, but fortunately not a lot of
off-sheet links to get wrong the first three times), and would crash every
five minutes. Whatever was wrong hasn't been back.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Keith R" wrote in message
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Jon- thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, this is in Excel 2003
(sorry I forgot to mention that in my original post). It is discouraging
to think that the problem is the same (or worse) in 2007. I saved the
file under a new filename, but find that both
'workbookname.xls'!named_range
and
'worksheetname'!named_range
both still autotransform to
workbookname.xls!named_range
which then gives the same symptom, where Excel doesn't consider it a
valid formula.
At this point, I'm inclined to rebuild the workbook (it is bloating as
well) so maybe I'll get lucky and the problem will dissapear when I do
so. I'll open a separate thread in Excel.misc to ask for any tips/tricks
on how to unbloat workbooks without messing up cross-sheet formulas, etc.
Thanks,
Keith
"Jon Peltier" wrote in message
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Is this Excel 2007? I ran across some issues in this release with names
as chart source data, getting error messages even though the ranges were
valid and the charts updated appropriately. Apparently saving the
workbook with a different name, then quitting and restarting Excel and
reopening the newly named workbook, fixed it.
I've run across other issues in 2007 with names being accepted and
charts not updating until they were saved (not saved as something else)
and reopened. This occurs with only workbook or worksheet level names, I
forget which.
Still some rough edges.
- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Keith R" wrote in message
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v11.xls is the workbook name
Graphs is the graphs worksheet name
Main Data is the data worksheet name
When I replace =v11.xls!A_ with ='Main Data'!A_ it accepts it as a
valid range, and the moment I go back into source data to look at it,
it has been automatically updated to =v11.xls!A_ ...and if I click into
this updated name, it still gives me the 'formula contains an error'
message
This is very confusing to me :-(
Thanks for any advice,
Keith
"Keith R" wrote in
message ...
Based on Steve Bullen's FunChart1 example (in that particular example,
auto-expanding named ranges) I've set up some graphs that used named
ranges as their data source. I copied the worksheet of graphs into a
new workbook and now have global named ranges that match the graphs'
original named ranges (using Jon Peltier's suggestion to use Jan
Pieterse et al's Name Manager v4.0, in which I removed all the sheet
named ranges which were duplicates, leaving me with just one set of
global named ranges)
The graphs, which still have their original named range sources,
update when the raw data updates- but I am unable to edit the named
range for any charts. If I click into the source data entry box
(series/values) and try to click out, I get an error message (formula
contains an error). The references are simple (=v11.xls!A_,
=v11.xls!B_, etc.) and the named ranges point to valid ranges of data
(and the graphs update when the raw data is updated).
A_ =INDIRECT("'MAIN DATA'!$BA$" & Graphs!$A$4 & ":$BA$" & Graphs!$B$4)
B_ =OFFSET(A_,0,1)
C_ =OFFSET(A_,0,2)
etc.
(all show the target data range correctly when I click in the range
box of the named range dialogue)
Based on the original problem with the named ranges, is there anything
that might be residually causing problems with the graphs? Any ideas
what else I should check?
Thank you very much,
Keith