The online help for excel 2007 says that Activechart.Deselect is
supposed to "be equivalent to pressing ESC while working on the active
chart".

When I use this command it doesn't appear to do anything.

In the VBE, when entering the above statement, after pressing the "."
and the drop down list of properties and methods appears, the Deselect
method is not in the list. Although the statement can be executed
without generating any error message.

Is there someway to get this command to work?

I've have not used it in earlier versions of excel, but it is in
xl2002, and it seems to work fine there. The online help topic looks
to be essentially equivalent to the one in xl2007.

I should point out that my xl2007 test system also has xl2003
installed on it.