I wrote a page about delinking your chart from its data range:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...ChartData.html

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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bj wrote:

the easiest way to do it is to copy the chart as a picture (hold
shift)<edit<Copy as pictureand paste the picture in a sheet.
the other way to do it is to create a new copy of the data sheet for each
chart you need to make.

"arhooley" wrote:


I'm using a huge spreadsheet to create a series of charts. I need to
re-sort the *entire* spreadsheet for each chart I create, which causes
all the previous charts to change. How can I create a chart, "freeze"
it, and then go on to create more charts from different data on the
same spreadsheet?