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Display all labels outside of pie chart with leading lines

I am generating a pie chart using vba from MSAccess. With the best fit property setting, most of the labels are displayed outside of the pie chart. However, we still have to manually drag out those labels that are short enough to fit within the pie slice.

I would like to know how to iterate through each slice and determine which of the labels needs to be dragged away from the slice. Most importantly, I need to clearly display the leading lines connecting the labels to their respective slices.

Thanks.

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Rgonzo1971

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yvroger

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Rgonzo, your solution moved me in the right direction. However, the height property in "dtalbl.Height" does not seem to work. I get the error: "object doesn't support this property or method".

Please assist. Thanks.

Rgonzo1971

Hi,

Could you send a dummy example?

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yvroger

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Before I come up with a dummy example let me ask you a question.

Weren't trying to use chtarea.Height and chtarea.Width instead of dtalbl.Height and chtarea.Width respectively?

For example the expression "If dtalbl.Top + (dtalbl.Height / 2) + chtArea.Top < MiddleOfAreaH" should have been "If dtalbl.Top + (chtarea.Height / 2) + chtArea.Top < MiddleOfAreaH", correct?

yvroger

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Is there a way to determine the angle of the data label from the chart axis?

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