Change font size of axis labels for all embedded excel charts

Are these LINKed or EMBEDded objects? In your Word document, press Alt+F9 and look at the field codes. Are they LINK codes or EMBED codes?

Dear lwebber,

thank you very much for your swift and professional response. I tried your code out on a word document with 2 embedded excel files.

I added the following code line to your code:
thisChartObject.Chart.Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels.Font.Size = 8 'Put your chart formatting commands here

I am afraid to tell you that this code somehow does achieve the desired results. It opens the chart in Excel but otherwise does nothing. The embedded Excel charts in the Word Document get strangely enlarged. I got no idea why this is so.

I have attached my sample file for your convenience. The word document contains your code with my little code snippet added.

Again, thank you very much in advance for your kind help.

Regards, Andreas  Embedded-Excel-Charts-Sample-Fil.doc

Rather than you try to explain in words what chart formatting you want, try this. In Excel, open one of the charts. Record a macro while you reformat the chart. Turn off the recorder, then examine the Excel macro. Transfer those commands to the Word macro.

The important Word variables that "hook" you into Excel are:

excelApp == equivalent to Excel's Application object
thisWorksheet == equiv. to Excel's Application.ActiveSheet object.

In your recorded macro, you may see the Selection object recorded. Selection is a member of the Application object (not the worksheet). Since the Word macro doesn't start with anything selected, you must get an explicit reference to the thing you want to reformat. That's the purpose of the Set thisChartObject = thisWorkSheet.ChartObjects(1) command.

If your recorded macro includes something like this:

    ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 1").Activate

then in the Word macro, add

    thisChartObject.Activate

Then where your Excel macro refers to ActiveChart, your Word macro would use excelApp.ActiveChart. You should then be able to copy and paste the commands from the Excel macro into the Word macro -- just be sure to prefix ActiveChart with excelApp.ActiveChart.

Dear lwebber:

thank you very much for your detailed explanations. I will give a try and let you know.

Thank you again for your professional support.

Regards, Andreas

Dear lwebber,

great it worked just fine. Thank you very much for your great and professional help.

Regards, Andreas