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bart13 bart13 is offline
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Hi Peter,

I'm doing a loop similar to what you noted, but excluding charts with the default name of Chart ###


For Each Pict In ActiveSheet.ChartObjects

intChartNameLength = Len(Pict.Chart.Name) - ThisSheetNameLength
strChartName = Right(Pict.Chart.Name, intChartNameLength)
tChartName = strChartName
ThisChartNum = Val(Right(strChartName, 4))

testFile.WriteLine strChartName

If Left(strChartName, 5) < "Chert" Then
Set ThisChart = Pict.Chart
SaveName = SavePath & strChartName & ".png"


ThisChart.Export Filename:=SaveName, FilterName:="PNG"
Counter = Counter + 1

End If

Next
Set ThisChart = Nothing

testFile.Close

(note that the actual non test code does have "Chart" instead of "Chert")


I haven't done any grouping that I know of and frankly I'm not even sure what it means in this context.

The truly weird part is that the code usually works and does save the file just fine. The test tab that I noted has 6 charts in it and three of them save just fine, but its like the other three (created by just copying one of the working charts, which itself was copied from another chart tab, and then editing the name and other attributes like the x axis via the normal UI ) don't even exist. Their names don't even show up in the output text file. All the names are shorter than the max 31 character limit.


bart13



Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter T View Post
Could you explain what you mean by "exported". With the chart Export method
you need to supply a file name for what will be an image of the chart saved
to disc (unique to avoid over writing). This name is not related to the
chart name, even though in practice you might use a similar name, eg
"C:\ChartSales01.gif"

Do you mean perhaps copying to some other workbook. Either way, there can be
problems referencing all chartobjects under relatively rare scenarios (or
any objects at the drawing object level). The following may reference
different charts,

for each chtObj in ws.chartobjects
vs
for i = 1 to ws.ChartObjects.Count
Set chtObj = ws.Chartobjects(i)

(ws is a reference to the sheet)

One way discrepancies can arise is after first renaming, then grouping, then
copying then ungrouping. You can end up with multiple chartobjects having
the same 'new name'.

Normally the For Next loop is more reliable (same as Chartobjects.count) but
the For Each loop will pick up any chartobjects that are still in a group
(but can be problematic for different reasons).

Regards,
Peter T

Last edited by bart13 : June 8th 08 at 07:04 PM