Comments on: Dynamic Charts

By: Kirill

Kirill — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:04:25 +0000

Sorry for misleading. SP3 were updates for Windows. Later I have installed SP2 for Office as you said and it started working! Great. Thanks a lot Jon for you advice. Your help is really appreciated!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:10:17 +0000

SP3? Excel 2007 is only up to SP2. Do you have both 2003 and 2007 on your computer? Maybe only 2003 was updated.

By: Kirill

Kirill — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:53:36 +0000

Yes, I did it and updated (SP3). Nothing changed ((

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:01:45 +0000

Kirill -

Click the big ugly round Office button. Click the Excel Options button, then click on Resources, and finally Check For Updates.

By: Kirill

Kirill — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:46:40 +0000

No, i didn’t upgrade. How to do that?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:32:50 +0000

Kirill -

Changing the reference from sheet name to file name is not an issue. Changing file name to [0] is a severe issue. Have you upgraded to the latest service pack for Excel 2007 (SP2)?

By: Kirill

Kirill — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:59 +0000

Hi John.
I made a dynamic range chart. It works perfectly until i close the file and reopen. After that a range behave in a strange way. If i add or delete (even all) data in a range it doesn’t change. When i select an existing series the formula bar is empty! When i go to Source Data window to check a name of series there i see [0]!prices when initially it was File_Name!prices (when i drew a chart initially i did it through Data Source window and wrote List_Name!prices but Excel (2007) translated it automatically in File_Name!prices)
What is the problem with it?
Thanks

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:33:37 +0000

The charts will be unhappy if there is no data to plot. But if you go so far as to delete the rows or columns with data, there will be a broken reference in the series formulas (#REF!), which gives you the error message.

By: Syed

Syed — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:20:56 +0000

Hi Jon,

I was able to successfully deploy the Dynamic Charts, however i am facing a small problem here.

When i remove the data from all the cells which carries the values information i get an error on screen:

A Formula in this worksheet contains one or more invalid references.
Verify that your formulas contain a valid path, workbook, range name, and cell reference.

But if i place some values in any of the cells that error goes away.
Is there a way to get rid of this one even if we dont have values.

Please help.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:57:53 +0000

Hi Andrdk -

See the very end of the article, where it talks about series in rows. It shows how to use the different parameters of the OFFSET function to identify a horizontal dynamic range rather than a vertical one.