Comments on: Changes to Charting in Excel 2007

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:36:52 +0000

Adrian -

This functionality has been removed. Thanks, Microsoft.

There is no readily available VBA alternative. The actual size-to-fit functionality is not possible, but code could be written to make the chart the right size to fit, without actually locking the chart edges to the window edges.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:35:28 +0000

Jon,

First of all, thank you for an excellent site.

My company has just upgraded us all from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007, and despite some searching I still can’t find a way to select a chart and then “adjust to fit page” before printing. Am I being particularly dumb, or has this feature been removed from Excel 2007?

If it has been removed, do you know of a some kind of macro or add-in that could recover this functionality, please? It’s a right pain to have to keep hopping between the worksheet and print preview in order to adjust the chart to fit the print.

Many thanks for any advice.

Adrian

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:16:27 +0000

I wish I had never changed from 2003 to Office 2007. avoid it at all costs.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:38:20 +0000

Break it down into a step size that doesn’t fail. Excel 2007 has required a lot of provisions like this.

By: Yohay

Yohay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:03:34 +0000

Hi Jon,

(now back from the weekend…)
It’s about 26,000 lines. We tried implimenting it on smaller ranges (say 500-1,000 at a time) and it worked on several iterations and after several more it just kicked us out with that prompt (“Selection is too large”).
Its suppose to be a simple drag-down, that’s why it’s so weird… nothing too sophisitcated..
Any idea?

Thanks,
Yohay.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:21:08 +0000

Yohah – How large is the range which is “too large”? Does it work with a smaller range?

By: Yohah

Yohah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:52:55 +0000

Hi Jon,
How are you?

I’m experiencing trouble with my excel 2007 regading the prompt “Selection is too large”. Any idea how can I overcome it? All I is copy-paste from another tab in the same sheet…

Thanks, Good day,
Yohay.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:41:38 +0000

Dan -

It’s all possible, you just have to find where the buttons were hidden and figure out what things have to be done in a different order. The text shouldn’t be a problem, because in 2007 font autoscaling is off.

By: dan welch

dan welch — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:21 +0000

Hi, I have just started using Excel 2007. I have a lot of experience with using other versions of Excel and it’s driving me up the wall at the moment. I need to create a graph – simple line graph with seven sets of variables. In the past I created a custom graph type with all the formatting I like – basically, “auto scale” off for all axes, axes labels, and legend. All of the graphs are printed out and form part of my factory’s production records and so I don’t really want them printing with huge sized text that’s been auto scaled up when it’s been printed, as this leaves the graph itself too small to be of any use at all. I cannot find out how to do this with 2007. It’s easy to do in 2003. Do you know if it’s possible in 2007 – and if so, how?
Many thanks!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:33:14 +0000

Jay -

There are issues with line-XY combination charts where the X axis is a date scale axis. I’ve written updates of some of my tutorials, but there are just too many. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ll check out all of the Add-A-Line pages.