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Dynamic Chart Title?
I have a spreadsheet I update monthly. Is it possible to have the charts
update the month in the chart title automatically if I have the month in a cell in the sheet somewhere? Or would have to do this with a macro? |
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Hi,
You can link the chart title to a cell. Select the chart title object and then in the formula bar type = and click the cell to link to. You should then have a full cell reference formula, something like, =Sheet1!$A$1 Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet I update monthly. Is it possible to have the charts update the month in the chart title automatically if I have the month in a cell in the sheet somewhere? Or would have to do this with a macro? |
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Andy, thanks. I'm not sure this will solve my problem. I should have been
more specific. I have a title in a chart that says essentially "This is the report for May 2007". I have several charts in this file that all have similar titles with the month and year included. I'd like to leave all the text alone except the month and year and fill those in from another cell in the sheet somewhere. I know I can do string concatenation in a cell but I'm not sure how to do it in a chart title or even if it can be done. "Andy Pope" wrote in message ... Hi, You can link the chart title to a cell. Select the chart title object and then in the formula bar type = and click the cell to link to. You should then have a full cell reference formula, something like, =Sheet1!$A$1 Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet I update monthly. Is it possible to have the charts update the month in the chart title automatically if I have the month in a cell in the sheet somewhere? Or would have to do this with a macro? |
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Dynamic Chart Title?
Do whatever string manipulation you need within a cell, and follow Andy's
instructions to link the chart title to this cell. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... Andy, thanks. I'm not sure this will solve my problem. I should have been more specific. I have a title in a chart that says essentially "This is the report for May 2007". I have several charts in this file that all have similar titles with the month and year included. I'd like to leave all the text alone except the month and year and fill those in from another cell in the sheet somewhere. I know I can do string concatenation in a cell but I'm not sure how to do it in a chart title or even if it can be done. "Andy Pope" wrote in message ... Hi, You can link the chart title to a cell. Select the chart title object and then in the formula bar type = and click the cell to link to. You should then have a full cell reference formula, something like, =Sheet1!$A$1 Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet I update monthly. Is it possible to have the charts update the month in the chart title automatically if I have the month in a cell in the sheet somewhere? Or would have to do this with a macro? |
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Hi,
In the linked cell enter the formula =This is the report for :"&TEXT(TODAY(),"MMMM YYYY") Then link as described, Shane Devenshire "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... Andy, thanks. I'm not sure this will solve my problem. I should have been more specific. I have a title in a chart that says essentially "This is the report for May 2007". I have several charts in this file that all have similar titles with the month and year included. I'd like to leave all the text alone except the month and year and fill those in from another cell in the sheet somewhere. I know I can do string concatenation in a cell but I'm not sure how to do it in a chart title or even if it can be done. "Andy Pope" wrote in message ... Hi, You can link the chart title to a cell. Select the chart title object and then in the formula bar type = and click the cell to link to. You should then have a full cell reference formula, something like, =Sheet1!$A$1 Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "Kent McPherson" wrote in message ... I have a spreadsheet I update monthly. Is it possible to have the charts update the month in the chart title automatically if I have the month in a cell in the sheet somewhere? Or would have to do this with a macro? |
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Dynamic Chart Title?
Kent,
I think you are asking about updating the chart title, not just a series title. In Excel 2003, you cannot link chart titles to cells. What I have done in the past is to create another data series with the series title linked to another cell. Then I make the data series format so that it is blank. Then the graphs' legend can be moved near the title and it looks like it is part of the title. Of course if you have multiple items you are graphing and the legend is a key part of the graph this may not work to your liking. |
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Hi,
You can link chart titles to a cell in Excel. In fact you can link Chart, Axis and Data labels to cells. http://www.andypope.info/tips/tip001.htm If the text you want to display comes from multiple cells then use a helper cell and formula, such as CONCATENATE, to build the text you want displayed in a single cell. Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "bgrubbs" wrote in message ... Kent, I think you are asking about updating the chart title, not just a series title. In Excel 2003, you cannot link chart titles to cells. What I have done in the past is to create another data series with the series title linked to another cell. Then I make the data series format so that it is blank. Then the graphs' legend can be moved near the title and it looks like it is part of the title. Of course if you have multiple items you are graphing and the legend is a key part of the graph this may not work to your liking. |
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