Addressing a text box in a chart
 

Hello,

I want to “tag” different areas of a chart in Sheet1 with clarifyin
text using VBA-code. Therefore I have created a textbox (Text Box 1
with the tool in the “drawing”-toolbar. This textbox is positione
within the area of chart1 that sits in sheet1 in the open workbook. Ho
do I address the text in Text Box 1 and change it to a string defined i
VBA? Would be great if someone could help me with this!

Thanks in advance!

//Emi

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Addressing a text box in a chart
 

Hi Emil,

Something like this, alter indexes as needed.

activesheet.chartobjects(1).chart. _
shapes(1).textframe.characters.text = "HELLO"

Or another way would be to link the textbox to a cell, select the
textbox and then enter a cell reference into the formula bar (include =
and sheetname). Then you can alter the cell and the textbox will update
automatically.

Cheers
Andy

Emil < wrote:

Hello,

I want to “tag” different areas of a chart in Sheet1 with clarifying
text using VBA-code. Therefore I have created a textbox (Text Box 1)
with the tool in the “drawing”-toolbar. This textbox is positioned
within the area of chart1 that sits in sheet1 in the open workbook. How
do I address the text in Text Box 1 and change it to a string defined in
VBA? Would be great if someone could help me with this!

Thanks in advance!

//Emil


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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info

Addressing a text box in a chart
 

Try

Sub TextInBox()
ActiveSheet.Shapes("Text Box 1").Select
Selection.Characters.Text = "This is text"
ActiveCell.Select
End Sub

regards'Don

"Emil " wrote in message
...
Hello,

I want to "tag" different areas of a chart in Sheet1 with clarifying
text using VBA-code. Therefore I have created a textbox (Text Box 1)
with the tool in the "drawing"-toolbar. This textbox is positioned
within the area of chart1 that sits in sheet1 in the open workbook. How
do I address the text in Text Box 1 and change it to a string defined in
VBA? Would be great if someone could help me with this!

Thanks in advance!

//Emil


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Addressing a text box in a chart
 

Thanks Don and Andy, it works great!
Now my users might understand what this chart is all about...

//Emi

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