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Shane Devenshire[_2_] Shane Devenshire[_2_] is offline
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Default Chart Title Using Autofilter Selection

Hi,

Single click the chart title, then click the Formula Bar, type = and click
the cell in the spreadsheet where the filter criteria is displayed. Press
enter.

If you want the title to be a little bit more dynamic, for example you pick
a month from a filter and you want to display "Budget as of July"

The create a cell in the spreadsheet with a formula like
="Budget as of "&A1

Where A1 is the filter drop down result. Then use the original approach to
link the title to this cell with the formula.

If the cell A1 returned a date like 12/1/2008 then your formula would become
a little more complicated:

="Budget as of: "&TEXT(A1,"M/D/YYYY")

If this helps, please click the Yes button.

Cheers,
Shane Devenshire

"Roger" wrote:

I have a simple line chart based on the the data displyed from using
Autofilter. I select only one criteria at time to display. I want to link
the chart title to the filtered criteria. So when I choose a different
filter the chart title will change to the new filter. Is there an easy way
to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Roger

BTW, I have both XL 2003 & XL 2007.