Odd Excel 2007 behavior: copied chart linked to source sheet
Hi all,
I'm finding that Excel 2007 has a strange behavior when it comes to copying sheets that contain Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. Let's say that on Worksheet A, I have a Pivot Table A and Pivot Chart A that is linked to it. If I change Pivot Table A, Pivot Chart A will change to reflect. So far, so good. Now, let's say I COPY Worksheet A to Worksheet B. Now I have Pivot Table B and Pivot Chart B on the new worksheet. Problem: Pivot Chart B is STILL LINKED to Pivot Table A! If I change Pivot Table A, both charts change! If I change Pivot Chart B, neither chart changes. This is new in Excel 2007, and it's a huge annoyance for me, as I create hundreds of charts by copying worksheets. Anyone know a way to get Excel 2007 to behave like Excel 2003 on this one? Thanks! Doug |
Odd Excel 2007 behavior: copied chart linked to source sheet
Doug:
I found the same behavior: when copying a worksheet containing a chart object, the chart on the new worksheet continued to be sourced back to the original worksheet. This is a real difficulty when re-sourcing complex, custom charts. Check this out from the MS Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931377/en-us It's definitely a bug; they're working on it... at least there's a workaround. "dparizo" wrote: Hi all, I'm finding that Excel 2007 has a strange behavior when it comes to copying sheets that contain Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. Let's say that on Worksheet A, I have a Pivot Table A and Pivot Chart A that is linked to it. If I change Pivot Table A, Pivot Chart A will change to reflect. So far, so good. Now, let's say I COPY Worksheet A to Worksheet B. Now I have Pivot Table B and Pivot Chart B on the new worksheet. Problem: Pivot Chart B is STILL LINKED to Pivot Table A! If I change Pivot Table A, both charts change! If I change Pivot Chart B, neither chart changes. This is new in Excel 2007, and it's a huge annoyance for me, as I create hundreds of charts by copying worksheets. Anyone know a way to get Excel 2007 to behave like Excel 2003 on this one? Thanks! Doug |
Odd Excel 2007 behavior: copied chart linked to source sheet
Great answer, and thanks for the link Mike!
"MikeM_work" wrote: Doug: I found the same behavior: when copying a worksheet containing a chart object, the chart on the new worksheet continued to be sourced back to the original worksheet. This is a real difficulty when re-sourcing complex, custom charts. Check this out from the MS Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931377/en-us It's definitely a bug; they're working on it... at least there's a workaround. "dparizo" wrote: Hi all, I'm finding that Excel 2007 has a strange behavior when it comes to copying sheets that contain Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. Let's say that on Worksheet A, I have a Pivot Table A and Pivot Chart A that is linked to it. If I change Pivot Table A, Pivot Chart A will change to reflect. So far, so good. Now, let's say I COPY Worksheet A to Worksheet B. Now I have Pivot Table B and Pivot Chart B on the new worksheet. Problem: Pivot Chart B is STILL LINKED to Pivot Table A! If I change Pivot Table A, both charts change! If I change Pivot Chart B, neither chart changes. This is new in Excel 2007, and it's a huge annoyance for me, as I create hundreds of charts by copying worksheets. Anyone know a way to get Excel 2007 to behave like Excel 2003 on this one? Thanks! Doug |
Odd Excel 2007 behavior: copied chart linked to source sheet
This was unfortunately introduced in 2007, because it works as expected in
earlier versions. Another way around it, if you're going to use a particular sheet and its chart frequently, is to copy the sheet to another workbook, then save the new workbook as a template. Whenever you need a copy of the sheet, right click on a sheet tab, and select this template to insert a new sheet based on the template. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "MikeM_work" wrote in message ... Doug: I found the same behavior: when copying a worksheet containing a chart object, the chart on the new worksheet continued to be sourced back to the original worksheet. This is a real difficulty when re-sourcing complex, custom charts. Check this out from the MS Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931377/en-us It's definitely a bug; they're working on it... at least there's a workaround. "dparizo" wrote: Hi all, I'm finding that Excel 2007 has a strange behavior when it comes to copying sheets that contain Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. Let's say that on Worksheet A, I have a Pivot Table A and Pivot Chart A that is linked to it. If I change Pivot Table A, Pivot Chart A will change to reflect. So far, so good. Now, let's say I COPY Worksheet A to Worksheet B. Now I have Pivot Table B and Pivot Chart B on the new worksheet. Problem: Pivot Chart B is STILL LINKED to Pivot Table A! If I change Pivot Table A, both charts change! If I change Pivot Chart B, neither chart changes. This is new in Excel 2007, and it's a huge annoyance for me, as I create hundreds of charts by copying worksheets. Anyone know a way to get Excel 2007 to behave like Excel 2003 on this one? Thanks! Doug |
Odd Excel 2007 behavior: copied chart linked to source sheet
Not sure if this is related, but we have found the following (slightly
different issue). Tab has data and a chart linked to the data. Use 'copy/Move' to clone the tab. If Excel is at SP2, the new cloned tab's chart points to the cloned data. If it's not at SP2, the new cloned tab's chart points to the original tab. Big fun! "dparizo" wrote: Hi all, I'm finding that Excel 2007 has a strange behavior when it comes to copying sheets that contain Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. Let's say that on Worksheet A, I have a Pivot Table A and Pivot Chart A that is linked to it. If I change Pivot Table A, Pivot Chart A will change to reflect. So far, so good. Now, let's say I COPY Worksheet A to Worksheet B. Now I have Pivot Table B and Pivot Chart B on the new worksheet. Problem: Pivot Chart B is STILL LINKED to Pivot Table A! If I change Pivot Table A, both charts change! If I change Pivot Chart B, neither chart changes. This is new in Excel 2007, and it's a huge annoyance for me, as I create hundreds of charts by copying worksheets. Anyone know a way to get Excel 2007 to behave like Excel 2003 on this one? Thanks! Doug |
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