After navigating the Options dialog to run the diagnostics as you suggested, I decided to review the multitude of other options. I stumbled upon “Cut, Copy, and sort inserted objects with their parent cells” in the Advanced category. I enabled it and now when I copy a worksheet, my charts get copied too. I have no idea why it wasn’t enabled before.

Thanks again for your site. It is very useful and educational.

Regards,
Steven

All three of these methods works fine for me, with the embedded charts being copied along with their parent worksheets. I would have suggested updating to SP2, but you report that you already are at that level. So it’s “one of those things”, which Office has in abundance.

Does this happen to all sheets with embedded charts, or just this special one? Were the charts originally made in Excel 2007, or was the file updated from an earlier version?

Here’s something to try which has helped to clear up some other misbehavior:

Click on the Office button
Click on Excel Options
Click on Resources
Click on Diagnose

If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure what’s next.

I am running Excel 2007 SP2 on Vista SP1. I tried copying a sheet using all 3 methods described on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP012170351033.aspx(menu bar Cells->Format->Move/Copy, right click on tab, and control-click-drag). In all 3, the charts are not in the new sheet. Do you have any other suggestions?

Regards,
Steven

To copy the sheet with its embedded charts, I am simply copying the sheet. When I place the new sheet, it contains all of the charts.

This was problematic in earlier versions of Excel 2007. In SP2 it appears to work as expected.

I’ve learned a lot from your site and usually don’t have any problems following along. This time, I’m not getting the same result as you and am confused.

You wrote, “Instead of copying just the chart, this time copy the sheet with its chart.” Whenever I copy a sheet, the new sheet has all the data but none of the charts. A sheet loses its charts when I try to move it from one workbook to another as well.

I’m using Excel 2007 and get the same result in both *.xls and *.xlsx workbooks. To copy the sheet, I right click on the sheet name tab and select “Move or copy…” On the dialog I check the “Create a copy” box and click “OK.” I end up with 2 sheets named “Foo” and “Foo (2),” but “Foo (2)” has no charts I can see. What am I missing?

Would you please detail the steps you are using to copy both the sheet *and* its chart?

Thank you,
Steven

There is no such property as .PlotArea.Right, by the way. Set your top and left, then match the width and height to the chart area:

.PlotArea.Width = .ChartArea.Width
.PlotArea.Height = .ChartArea.Height

        With ActiveChart
            .PlotArea.Height = 138
            .PlotArea.Top = 0
            .PlotArea.Width = 232
            .PlotArea.Left = 9
            .PlotArea.Right = 0
            .PlotArea.Border.LineStyle = xlNone
            .PlotArea.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
       End with

 
These height and width are the same area as the chart area height and width (I am creating a bunch of small graphs and need the plot area to be as large as possible, i.e. not leave annoying wasted space within the chart area and a little squishy graph).
Thanks again for the response.

What version of Excel are you using. Excel 97 used to have problems with some chart formatting commands if the chart was not completely in view in the window. I haven’t noticed that problem in a long time, though. And I’m not sure about the ScreenUpdating setting.

You might have less trouble if you make sure you are not selecting the chart and its elements in code before formatting them. Change

Object.Select
Selection.DoSomething

 
to

Object.DoSomething