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Unable to locate XLUSRGAL.XLS
Hi folks, After having defined several user-defined graphs I have the resulting excel to end users. Obviusly they don't see the graphs as me becasue they don't have the user-defined graphs in its Excel. The Excel manual explains a method to avoid this issue: share the XLUSRGAL.xls (where user-dephined graphs are suppose to be saved) to end users. My main issue is that I have spent two days looking for this file and I'm not able to find it. I 'm sure that Excel is saving the user-defined graphs in some place but I am being crazing trying to discover where... Please, I would be very grateful if someone could help me. Alf -- alf_gon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alf_gon's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29029 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=487577 |
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If the user has their own charts in the gallery, there will be a hard choice
to make: hose my charts or hose his. Anyway, you could look here for the user gallery: C:\Documents and Settings\<username\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel A year or two ago I posted a method to distribute user-defined chart types without overwriting a user's entire custom chart gallery. Create a new workbook that you will distribute to the users. Embed each custom chart template on its own worksheet. Put the name for each chart type in cell A1 of the sheet, and the description in cell A2. Put this macro into a regular code module in the workbook containing your custom chart templates: Sub DistributeChartTypes() Dim ws As Worksheet Dim cht As Chart Dim chto As ChartObject For Each ws In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets If ws.ChartObjects.Count 0 Then If Len(ws.Cells(1, 1).Value) 1 Then Set cht = ws.ChartObjects(1).Chart Application.AddChartAutoFormat Chart:=cht, _ Name:=ws.Cells(1, 1).Value, _ Description:=ws.Cells(2, 1) End If End If Next End Sub Finally, put this macro into the "ThisWorkbook" code module of the workbook with the custom charts: Private Sub Workbook_Open() DistributeChartTypes End Sub Send out the file with instructions to open it with macros enabled. The Workbook_Open procedure will run when the workbook opens, which runs the DistributeChartTypes procedure. If any chart type with the same name is already present in the user's custom chart gallery, the new one will overwrite the existing one. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ "alf_gon" wrote in message ... Hi folks, After having defined several user-defined graphs I have the resulting excel to end users. Obviusly they don't see the graphs as me becasue they don't have the user-defined graphs in its Excel. The Excel manual explains a method to avoid this issue: share the XLUSRGAL.xls (where user-dephined graphs are suppose to be saved) to end users. My main issue is that I have spent two days looking for this file and I'm not able to find it. I 'm sure that Excel is saving the user-defined graphs in some place but I am being crazing trying to discover where... Please, I would be very grateful if someone could help me. Alf -- alf_gon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alf_gon's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29029 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=487577 |
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Unable to locate XLUSRGAL.XLS
I know that it seems not possible but I haven't done this search (this path and so others using the Search tool, lloking for hidden folders and so on..) severals times with no result. However, I'm sure that the user-defined charts must be saved somewhre because every time I open a excel file from scratch I can see the user-defined charts that I have previously defined in the graph-chart assistant. If I open the visual basic editor I can see a VB Project named XLUSRGAL.xls, but this file doesn't exist in my PC. Am I becoming crazy? Alf -- alf_gon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alf_gon's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29029 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=487577 |
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Unable to locate XLUSRGAL.XLS
Alf
When you do a search for *.xls do all the other *.xls files on your computer show up in search found list? With Windows Explorer open, go to ToolsFolder OptionsView and make sure "show all files" is checked and "hide extensions for known file types" is unchecked. Try the search again for just *.xls. Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:39:40 -0600, alf_gon wrote: I know that it seems not possible but I haven't done this search (this path and so others using the Search tool, lloking for hidden folders and so on..) severals times with no result. However, I'm sure that the user-defined charts must be saved somewhre because every time I open a excel file from scratch I can see the user-defined charts that I have previously defined in the graph-chart assistant. If I open the visual basic editor I can see a VB Project named XLUSRGAL.xls, but this file doesn't exist in my PC. Am I becoming crazy? Alf |
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