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- From: kby@cco.caltech.edu (Kimo B. Yap)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Excel 4.0 problem
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:50:39 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Summary: CREATE.OBJECT broken in Excel 4 for Mac?
- Keywords: excel 4 charts create.object compatability
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- Does anyone know of a problem in the CREATE.OBJECT function for embedded
- charts in Excel 4.0 for Macintosh? The gist of the problem is it doesn't
- do what it's supposed to do when the selection is multiple (two discon-
- tiguous columns, in this case).
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- The history of this is as follows:
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- I am developing an application in Excel for cross-development on Mac/Windoze.
- The application creates a number of embedded charts. In 3.0 (Mac),
- CREATE.OBJECT worked fine; you SELECT (FORMULA.GOTO) the the data to plot
- (XY chart) and then use COPY followed by CREATE.OBJECT (all of this is
- happening on an add-in macro sheet adjunct to the worksheet).
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- In 4.0 Windoze version this also works fine (the screen graphics aren't
- quite the same size but the effect is basically the same). In 4.0 for
- the MAC it works in one instance but not in the other. The only difference
- appears to be that the non-working instance is a multiple selection whereas
- the working is not. The symptom is that, without additional arguments, the
- function creates a column graph instead of an XY as requested, but, even
- with the extra arguments (all appropriate specified), the resulting XY
- graph uses the wrong series values. The X series gets left blank and the
- Y series is what the X series is supposed to be. In one instance, it seems
- even more badly mangled although I haven't debugged it enough to get the
- details (the result is that the y series ends up being a superset of the
- desired X series).
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- Using the chart wizard tool on the tool bar with the same data works fine.
- I could use the CHART.WIZARD function, but I'd like to maintain compatability
- with 3.0 if possible. I can presumably work around this with EDIT.SERIES, but
- that's a crock.
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- I'm mainly asking to see if (a) anyone else has seen this, and (b) is there
- a known fix. For the moment, I'll assume I can work around it, I'd just like
- to find a reasonably elegant fix as opposed to something like an EDIT.SERIES
- crock. (e. g., specifying arguments more explicitly is acceptable as long
- as it works the same in 3.0, but putting in what should be superfluous
- functions is not).
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- Please reply by EMail if possible, but here is OK if not.-kby@caltech.alumni.edu
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