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Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

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    Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    Hi all,
    I'm getting an error message when trying to set the width and left properties of my chart in VBA. I want to fix these properties without selecting the chart first. My code is

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    But this gives me a Object Doesn't Support This Property Or Method error.
    I've also tried:

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    but to no avail. Can anyone help me with the full qualifying way of doing this?

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    Re: Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    Hi, your second bit of code is the correct syntax:

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    I would assume that kpiws is not a valid reference to a worksheet? Can you post your full code? Note - the maximum width you can set to the chart plotarea is the width of the chartobject.

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    Re: Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    Hi thanks for getting back.

    It's set fine I think. owb is set as a Public variable as workbook
    Full code is:

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    I adapted the code from recording a macro in my personal workbook. It came up with the following:

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    This is actually reducing the size of the chart width from what it is loaded as, so it shouldn't be a problem. I just wanted to perform the same action without needing to select the chart first. But how do I do that?

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    Re: Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    Hi - please can you upload an example workbook for which this code is throwing up the error you mention:
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    Inserting .chart is the usual solution.

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    Re: Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    Unfortunately it still brings up an error using that code: Method 'width' of object 'plotarea' failed.

    I managed to get it working by using the following code:
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    But this has run me into another problem - it misplaced the graph completely on the left of the spreadsheet. Seems like the recorded values don't translate the same when at runtime. So i pasted the whole macro recorded code above in its place to see what that would do, even though I didn't quite want it done that way. The same thing happened - i.e. the whole graph is moved to the left of the spreadsheet.

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    Re: Error when setting plotarea width property of a chart in VBA

    You are assigning it to the .left property of the chartobject, not the plot area which is why it moves the whole sheet.

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