Saturday, February 8, 2014

Format bubble chart using VBA

Change the style and color of bubbles using VBA. Snapshot below -




All you need to create a table with series name mentioned in cells and add color to cells next to it Snapshot below -



Macro to format chart -

Sub format_chart()
Dim srs As Series
Dim cht As Chart
   
Set cht = Sheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects("Chart 1").Chart
   
    For Each srs In cht.SeriesCollection
        'change marker color
        ' change border
        srs.Border.Color = Range("e" & Application.WorksheetFunction.Match(srs.Name, Sheets("Sheet1").Range("a:a"), 0)).Interior.Color
        srs.Border.Weight = 3
        srs.Border.LineStyle = xlDot ' change style here
        'srs.Format.Fill.BackColor.RGB = RGB(255, 153, 153)
        srs.Format.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
    Next srs


End Sub


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1 comment:

  1. Suggestions on how to add data labels to each bubble? You define srs.Name to be the first column, but if I ever reference the label (.ApplyDataLabels, etc), it takes the value from a different column. Can't for the life of me figure out how to reference the .Name

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