Question

Excel VBA to copy chart between workbooks without creating an external link

Asked by: ryanjames3

Hello all,

I am looking for a code, I know there are some VBA codes out there that will "break" the link between 2 workbooks. What I am wondering is if there is a way to avoid creating that link when copying a Chart Object from one workbook to another using VBA? This is the only external link that keeps popping up and I was wondering if it was possible to get rid of this.

Thanks.

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2009-04-21 at 01:02:55ID24340397
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by: brettdjPosted on 2009-04-21 at 01:10:54ID: 24191906

If you are copying the data range as well then you can just relink the destination workbook to itself (from the source workbook) using ChangeLink in VBA

This gets the Chart pointing to the data in the destination folder

Cheers

Dave

 

by: brettdjPosted on 2009-04-21 at 01:11:22ID: 24191909

>destination folder

destination file.

 

by: ryanjames3Posted on 2009-04-21 at 01:19:43ID: 24191955

I see how that would work, I think but I'm just copying the chart object itself and not the cells it is referencing (see below). Is it absolutely necessary to bring over the source data along with the chart?

Windows("ChartWorkbook.xls").Activate
        ActiveSheet.ChartObjects (1)
        ActiveChart.ChartArea.Copy
        Windows("DestinationWorkbook.xls").Activate
        ActiveSheet.Paste
    
         Dim RngToCover As Range
         Dim ChtOb As ChartObject
         Sheets("Sheet1").Range ("B20:G39")
         Set RngToCover = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B20:G39")
         Set ChtOb = ActiveChart.Parent
         ChtOb.Height = RngToCover.Height ' resize
         ChtOb.Width = RngToCover.Width   ' resize
         ChtOb.Top = RngToCover.Top       ' reposition
         ChtOb.Left = RngToCover.Left     ' reposition
         ChtOb.Name = "BubbleChart"

                                              
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by: brettdjPosted on 2009-04-21 at 01:27:00ID: 24191989

Well you can just break the links like so (this kills the links to a file called SourceFile that contains the original graph)

That will delink the chart, but the source data is now hardcoded values as opposed to a range you can work with

Cheers

Dave

 ActiveWorkbook.BreakLink Name:="SourceFile", Type:=xlExcelLinks

                                              
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by: ryanjames3Posted on 2009-04-21 at 01:40:56ID: 24192067

Not sure if I had the code in the wrong place before but I'm pretty sure I had something very similar to that and it wasn't working! But it worked nicely and thanks for getting back to me so quick!

 

by: brettdjPosted on 2009-04-21 at 03:30:01ID: 24192692

thx for the grade :)

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