Comments on: Export Chart as Image File

By: Tom J.

Tom J. — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:17:30 +0000

Exported charts look great from the (Enhanced) Export Chart Add-In. Thanks!

By: John Page

John Page — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:19:14 +0000

I had just run into the same problem Ferschubert documented for VBA code that exported graphs as images fine in Excel 2003 and 2007, and would create corrupted files in 2010. The workaround appears to go through all of the charts you wish to export, and change a property for each of them (toggle back and forth) so that the chart is “touched”. At that point, the charts originally created in 2007 are working fine in Excel 2010.

You shouldn’t need to rebuilt each chart from scratch.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:19:25 +0000

That link is to a lot of similar or duplicate pages of documentation on the Microsoft web site. What are you asking me to do with it?

By: Ferschubert

Ferschubert — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:24:47 +0000

Hi Jon,

nice solutions for exporting chart as images. I was using since Excel 2003 an export solution that worked very well but crashed on Excel 2010. The exported charts are corrupted, with 0 bytes, but not all of them, randomly one or two work.

As I’ve seen you’re an Excel expert, if you have time and will please give a look on the MSDN thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/search/en-us/?query=CHART%20EXPORT

Your input would be really appreciated. Thanks!

By: Roger Palfree

Roger Palfree — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:37:24 +0000

We all get so annoyed when, after all these years, Microsoft fails to give us, or even stops giving us, ways to do things that practically every user will want to do sometime or other.

I have to find easy ways to tell colleagues to do things like this. If I use words/abbreviations like VBA and Macro, they run away. So I tell them to get the chart the right size and looking good in Excel, then right click copy, paste into a new Powerpoint slide (as picture), then save as gif, for example. They know Powerpoint, and copy and paste, and don’t run away when I suggest this!

Like you, I favour Irfanview for viewing images and performing most manipulations. Images from slides usually need cropping, and often a bit of size adjustment if going on the web.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:46:43 +0000

Taylor -

I hadn’t thought of extracting a metafile from the xlsx file, though I have tried to process the XML files that define charts (a bit of a mess). There are libraries for dealing with zip files and Office XML files, so accessing the emf components should be possible.