I wonder how we can add error bars? i tried once but only i could add error bars on first categories,but in second and third categories i could not see any error bars!!!

I don’t really understand the question.

A pivot chart by definition contains all the data from one pivot table.

You can create the pivot charts (in Excel 2003 & earlier they are added as separate chart sheets) and change their location to objects on the same worksheet.

The pivot table that a pivot chart uses can be located on any worksheet, and multiple pivot tables can exist on a single worksheet.

Could you elaborate on that?

Do you mean make a chart, based on a table, based on GetPivotData? If so, how would that be dynamic (without VBA)?

Thanks for the comment. Pivot tables are really very powerful, flexible, and fast. They’ve received an upgrade in Excel 2007, but I haven’t played with the new ones enough yet to say anything profound. Pivot charts are powerful in their own right, but inflexible. They’ve also gotten an upgrade in Excel 2007, and even the ones I made for this post didn’t annoy me as much as I recall from the old days (perhaps the new color palette is more of an improvement than I thought).

Stay tuned, because I have two more posts coming. One will show how to use dynamic names in the worksheet to update a chart when the pivot table is updated (this works in cases where the number of series does not change), and the next will show how to use VBA for cases when the names won’t do it.