Comments on: Excel 2007 Chart Performance – Revisited

By: ChemE

ChemE — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:36:09 +0000

Thank you all who posted the marker options fix. I was ready to ragebreak my computer over this.

By: David Gobbett

David Gobbett — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:28:46 +0000

After quite some time searching the net and messing around in Excel, I finally found a workaround to this problem, which I now see is also mentioned above (if only I had seen that earlier…). Setting the Marker Options to Built-in (e.g. simple x) prevents the slow (sometimes looping) redraws of a chart with 3 series of 9000+ points and the performance becomes quite satisfactory.

By: Chris Wharton

Chris Wharton — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:05:02 +0000

Excel 2007 seems to have a problem with chart events. The VBA code you wrote in GetXYonAnyChart does not work in 2007

By: Dmitry Kolosov

Dmitry Kolosov — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:18:58 +0000

Not only is Excel 2007 notoriously slow when it comes to drawing the charts.
Too often I see it redrawing a chart in an infinite loop!
I have a Scatter chart with 18000 points. If I scroll the page so that the chart goes out of view and then scroll it back – Excel redraws the chart (it takes 8 seconds on my Dual-i7 with 4G RAM) – then immediately redraws it again, and again, and again – infinitely

By: Mr. Kariranta

Mr. Kariranta — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Yep, I noticed that and also that it is possible put your own chart template with x- and +-markers as a default chart style – tried that and it initially seems to make the graph making bearable, I’ll at least try to work that way for a day or two and postpone the decision of downgrading.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:26:33 +0000

Mr K -

You can format a chart with the markers and colors you need, then save it as a user-defined style. This style can then be applied to new or existing charts.