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Marcus Langell
 
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Default Chart items moving around

Hi everybody!
I have posted this before but I never got any replies so I did some testing
myself. I I want to share what I have found out with you and it would be
great to hear if someone else recognizes this.

Background:
I have a number of embedded charts on a scorecard sheet that gets updated
from several sources. I run this scorecard for different business units, take
pictures of the scorecards and put in another Excel file that I later make a
PDF of.

Problem: After running this a few times, I find that my chart legends have
moved around a bit and that some plot areas have been resized.

Solution: I have two macros. One that saves information about size and
postion of chart elements, which I run once when I have set up the charts as
I want them, and one that reformats the charts according to the saved
information, which I run after each run of the scorecard.

My findings: This seem to happen for charts where the legend is not at a
default placement (top, bottom, left, right, corner) and the chart is
automatically reformatted due to new data (or simply when you zoom in and out
a few times).

Am I doing something wrong here or is this a bug?
(I'm using Excel 2003. Try this by creating a simple chart and move the
legend manually, then zoom in and out a couple of times and see if the legend
has moved.)

/Marcus

 
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