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    Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Hello,

    My Excel VBA macro has a random behaviour in the generation of stacked histograms.

    Here is my set of data:
    Quarter 1w 2w 3w 4w >4w
    16Q4 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
    17Q1 33.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 66.67%
    17Q2 10.87% 6.52% 13.04% 2.17% 67.39%
    17Q3 10.00% 16.67% 13.33% 6.67% 53.33%
    17Q4 28.13% 6.25% 15.63% 3.13% 46.88%
    18Q1 17.86% 0 14.29% 7.14% 60.71%

    The goal is to have for each quarter, a histogram showing how many times we have 1w, 2w, 3w, 4w, >4w.

    The result is 9 times out of 10 an ugly graph where x and y do not correspond to what I gave, and a number of series greater than 5.

    Here is my code:
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    Can you please help as this is getting extremely frustrating?

    Thx in advance!
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    Dassadar

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Hi,

    Please add code tags to your code, as stated in the forum rules, then we can get on with fixing your problem.
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Quote Originally Posted by xlnitwit View Post
    Hi,

    Please add code tags to your code, as stated in the forum rules, then we can get on with fixing your problem.
    (just done after seeing the ugly result!)

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Thank you! Perhaps this adjustment to clear any data that Excel automatically uses for the chart based on the current selection when you create the chart
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Thx.
    I am getting an error on the .XValues line: method not recognized... probably due to the 2 upper With?

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    For the clear actually I was using this:
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Oops. Perhaps this one
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    The cleaning of series was the right thing to do : thanks a lot!

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    You're welcome.

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    By the way I had some other trouble with my same graphs which was how to assign colours to series.
    I tried this:
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    But it doesn't seem to have any effect... any idea please?

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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    My first quick answer to this last part is that you are not addressing the series separately.

    You will need to do that for each series in ActiveChart
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    Yes, I was just testing to display series 1 in black before setting the right colour to each - but this has no effect on series 1.
    Should I use this instead maybe?
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    This line actually changes the cht variable
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    so you need to reassign it before you can alter the chart, like this
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    Or you could simply add it to the graphs sheet in the first place.
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    Re: Random behaviour for graph-generating macro

    It works, thank you so much!

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    You're welcome.

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