You can take the table-based approach further. The table would have one row for each series, and one column for marker shape, marker size, marker foreground color, marker background color, line color. Loop through each series in the chart; series 1 uses the info in row 1, etc. If there are more rows than series, no problem. If there are more series, you just need to bail out when a row is blank.

I have a chart with a dynamic range. I have certain marker/line types/colors I would prefer each series in the chart to have.

For example if my dynamic chart has 5 series and I do the traditional double click on the series 5 line and change the marker from an x to a triangle, then I take away series 5, and if I bring back series 5 again the marker type is back to the default x in the chart.

The funny thing is I have another workbook with a dynamic chart where the chart remembers what my settings were when I take away and then add a series back to it….. Not sure if there is a setting/option I am not aware of…

One idea I had was to record a macro of me going into each series and changing it to the settings I want… then I would have to have an if statement to skip the operation if a series did not exist… that solution seems like a real pain and I am hoping someone has a better idea for me.

I show something similar in Split Data Range into Multiple Chart Series without VBA, where I split two columns into separate series based on the city name in a third column.

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I have a large block of data and I want to be able to number columns like 2,2,2 1,1,1,1 3,3,3,3,3 and have each of the columns numbered 1′s, 2′s, and 3′s each be automatically plotted as a series in an xy scatter plot.

The numbers will be consecutive as far as 1,1,1,1 each column will be next to one another, but then between 2,2,2 and 1,1,1,1 there could be data/blank columns in between. And the numbers groupings may not be consecutive as I showed in my first example in the paragraph above.

Thanks for any help!

-Ryan