Comments on: Extract Chart Data

By: IS

IS — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:29:03 +0000

Dear Jon,
This is faboulous. Cant figure out how to get it to copy the data, and the chart with all formats as well. Tried to embed the macro in the personal.xlsb workbook but still no result.

grateful for your response
I

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.