Suppose I have three range objects, call them XRange, DataRange and
DataLabelsRange.

- XRange is a series of months, e.g. Jan 2005, Feb 2005 ... etc.

- DataRange contains several series of data for each month. For
example data for North Sales, South Sales, etc.

- DataLabelsRange contains the actual labels "North Sales", "South
Sales", etc.

The goal is use VBA to create a chart from this ranges with the months
on the x axis, lines for each of the series on the y axis, and a legend
labeling the lines for you. Pretty simple, no? But after goofing
around with the seriescollection object for a couple of hours I can't
figure it out.

For reasons I won't go into, I can't just select these three ranges as
one block and have Excel figure out the rest. I need to take these
three separate ranges and somehow meld them into a graph using VBA.

Any advice would be much appreciated--thanks!

In your goofing around did you check out the XValues and Values
properties of the Series object?

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Suppose I have three range objects, call them XRange, DataRange and
DataLabelsRange.

- XRange is a series of months, e.g. Jan 2005, Feb 2005 ... etc.

- DataRange contains several series of data for each month. For
example data for North Sales, South Sales, etc.

- DataLabelsRange contains the actual labels "North Sales", "South
Sales", etc.

The goal is use VBA to create a chart from this ranges with the months
on the x axis, lines for each of the series on the y axis, and a legend
labeling the lines for you. Pretty simple, no? But after goofing
around with the seriescollection object for a couple of hours I can't
figure it out.

For reasons I won't go into, I can't just select these three ranges as
one block and have Excel figure out the rest. I need to take these
three separate ranges and somehow meld them into a graph using VBA.

Any advice would be much appreciated--thanks!

This page has some simple VBA examples that should get you started:

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

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

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Suppose I have three range objects, call them XRange, DataRange and
DataLabelsRange.

- XRange is a series of months, e.g. Jan 2005, Feb 2005 ... etc.

- DataRange contains several series of data for each month. For
example data for North Sales, South Sales, etc.

- DataLabelsRange contains the actual labels "North Sales", "South
Sales", etc.

The goal is use VBA to create a chart from this ranges with the months
on the x axis, lines for each of the series on the y axis, and a legend
labeling the lines for you. Pretty simple, no? But after goofing
around with the seriescollection object for a couple of hours I can't
figure it out.

For reasons I won't go into, I can't just select these three ranges as
one block and have Excel figure out the rest. I need to take these
three separate ranges and somehow meld them into a graph using VBA.

Any advice would be much appreciated--thanks!

Thanks Jon. I actually visited your site before posting, but I'm still
a little confused.

Here's what my data looks like:

date1 date2 date3
seriestitle1
seriestitle2 series data range A
seriestitle3
----------------------------------------------------
seriestitle4
seriestitle5 series data range B
seriestitle6

I have used VBA to identify the ranges corrseponding to A and B. I
could use the setsourcedata method to graph data range A with titles
and dates. But I can't do that for data range B.

Your website says, "You are not limited to using SetSourceData to
define the data being charted. You can add the series one-by-one,
selecting the precise data you want, not what Excel will assume you
want." It would be extremely helpful if you could give me a hint on
how to do this.

Pick one of these techniques:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...html#addseries

and put it into a loop which iterates each series.

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

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Thanks Jon. I actually visited your site before posting, but I'm still
a little confused.

Here's what my data looks like:

date1 date2 date3
seriestitle1
seriestitle2 series data range A
seriestitle3
----------------------------------------------------
seriestitle4
seriestitle5 series data range B
seriestitle6

I have used VBA to identify the ranges corrseponding to A and B. I
could use the setsourcedata method to graph data range A with titles
and dates. But I can't do that for data range B.

Your website says, "You are not limited to using SetSourceData to
define the data being charted. You can add the series one-by-one,
selecting the precise data you want, not what Excel will assume you
want." It would be extremely helpful if you could give me a hint on
how to do this.