Comments on: Enhanced Export Chart Procedure

By: Sven

Sven — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:38:05 +0000

Lol, ok then. I’ll see if I can get upgraded to Office 2010.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:07:41 +0000

Sven -

The camera tool in 2007 is atrocious. The pictures of charts look like a child drew them with crayons.

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:18 +0000

I should add that what I’m doing is pasting a Charley Kyd-style dashboard, which has a bunch of camera objects and small charts, into a new empty chart and exporting that to PNG using Chart.Export. So maybe it’s the charts-within-charts that’s not working well when using this method, compared to the manual cut-n-paste to Paint.

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:29:32 +0000

Hi Jon,

Excel 2007.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:20:27 +0000

Hi Sven -

I have not noticed much different. What version of Excel are you using?

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:11:37 +0000

Thanks for the post, Jon. I’ve had some success building macros around the basic Chart.Export command which saves a selected range to PNG.

What I’ve noticed, however, is that the quality of the PNG image is significantly worse with this method than if I just copy and paste the selection to Paint and save as PNG.

Which is a pity, as I’d love to automate the export process.