I tested my protocol on a handful of charts, three or four. I don’t think as many as 128 is likely to cause such problems. I neglected to ask which version of Excel you are using.

I did a cut and paste on your suggestions and ran the utility, both for all charts and for a single selected chart, without success. When I try to change all charts, I get the same error message as before. I wonder whether the number of charts I’m attempting to change (128) could be the issue. However, when I try to change a single selected graph, the utility doesn’t return an error message but changes nothing.

Back to square one I’m afraid.

Presumably you’re talking about the utility referenced in Change Series Formulas and How to Edit Series Formulas.

If you only want to change the X values, replace

Scatterplots.xls]DGHData’!$B$21

with

DataMaster3.xls]Yr0607′!$B$21

If you want to change X and Y values, replace

Scatterplots.xls]DGHData’

with

DataMaster3.xls]Yr0607′

I’ve constructed three test workbooks with these workbook and worksheet names to test this.

I’m looking to change series references in 120 odd charts within a single worksheet of a charts workbook from one data workbook to another data workbook. No matter which way I attempt the switch, in full or in part, the utility either returns an error message (improper call or argument) or runs without an error message but changes nothing.

Old Text

=SERIES(,’[TM60-Scatterplots.xls]DGHData’!$B$21:$AE$21,’[TM60-Scatterplots.xls]DGHData’!$B$53:$AE$53,1)

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New Text

=SERIES(,’[TM60-DataMaster3.xls]Yr0607′!$B$21:$AE$21,’[TM60-Scatterplots.xls]DGHData’!$B$53:$AE$53,1)

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I have tried with and without quotation marks, with all workbooks open.

Within the charts, the syntax of the original series reference is:

=[TM60-Scatterplots.xls]DGHData!$B$21:$AE$21,[TM60-Scatterplots.xls]DGHData!$B$53:$AE$53,1)

I would be grateful for your advice.

GVC