After deleting the charts, and all shapes on the sheet (if you want to keep
any temporarily cut/paste them to another sheet), save the workbook, close
it, reopen it. That's the only way I know to reset the object counter.
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Regards,
Peter T

"Scott" wrote in message
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I have a VBA function that will copy 12 charts from various workbooks into
a
single workbook. I run this macro once a month. Before I run the macro I
delete all the charts from the single workbook. After running the macro I
notice that the chart names (e.g. 1,2,3,...) increase by the number of
charts
I copy. For example when I first ran the macro the charts in the single
workbook were named 1 ..12. After deleting the charts in the single
workbook
and running the macro again the charts are named 13..24. Is there a way
to
reset the chart names so they are always 1..12 in the single workbook?