Comments on: Extract Chart Data

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:00:22 +0000

Just time for a quick response to give you an idea. The click returns the series number (Arg1) and the point number (Arg2). You could have your code act on

ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(Arg1).Points(Arg2)

If the marker is a blue diamond, change it to a red square; otherwise change it back.

Good idea for a blog post. Unfortunately I have a backlog if ideas and a shortage of time.

By: John

John — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:33:05 +0000

Thanks Jon,

I had just found your post “Get INformation about a point in an embedded chart” today and it does what I need, if I could also somehow highlite the selected points so the user knows which ones he has selected tha would also be beficial.

John

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:52:07 +0000

You can write some code that will respond to mouse clicks in the chart: Chart Events in Microsoft Excel Get Information about a Point in an Embedded Chart (zip file) I've used similar techniques to help users select a range of points for regression or other detailed analysis, to highlight certain points, or to sort points into two subsets. It's a lot of work to set up, but it's slick from the user's perspective.

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:14:11 +0000

I want something where I canextract only some of the data points from a chart.

I have a series of data with a date and price which I plot in excel. I want to be able to click or double click on the graph on a subset of the displayed points and have the dates for the selected points transferred to another part of the spreadsheet so I can do some cycle analysis on this set of points.

Does anyone know how to do this.

Thanks
John

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:23:58 +0000

TV - This can be done by parsing the series formula. John Walkenbach has code to do this: A Class Module To Manipulate A Chart Series.

By: TV

TV — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:51:11 +0000

Is there a series property or some other trick to get the address of the chart data (or at least a point)?

By: Haffy

Haffy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:04:36 +0000

Thanks, Jon. I have to extract data from charts regularly and sorted out a workbook to do it – but your code is so much faster – one of those “Why on earth didn’t I try that?” moments.

Thanks again.

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:28:27 +0000

Wow! I think this little utility is something that might come in very handy – thanks!