How can I select data range for a chart from different sheet using VBA? Suppose that data sheet name is data_sheet, chart sheet name is chart_sheet, and my data range is A1:A20. How can I do this in excel? I checked THIS but didn't work for different sheets. Otherwise, I checked THIS but returned this error: Subscript out of range:
With Worksheets("chart_sheet")
ActiveChart.SetSourceData Source:=Worksheets("data_sheet").Range("A1:A20")
End With
Assuming "chart_sheet" is the name of your Chart and "data_sheet" is the name of your Worksheet, I think you want to do the following:
Charts("chart_sheet").SetSourceData Source:=Worksheets("data_sheet").Range("A1:A20")
Your With block was not doing anything useful - the purpose of a With block is to allow you to just type . as a shortcut for something like Worksheets("data_sheet")..
So something like:
With Sheets("chart_sheet")
.SetSourceData Source:=Worksheets("data_sheet").Range("A1:A20")
End With
would work, because the .SetSourceData is an abbreviation of Sheets("chart_sheet").SetSourceData. (Notice also that the Sheets collection contains both Worksheets and Charts objects, so Charts("chart_sheet") and Sheets("chart_sheet") both point to the same thing.)
ActiveChart refers to the currently active chart, just as ActiveSheet returns to the currently sheet. If you don't have a chart active when that piece of code executes, you will get an error.
So the following piece of code would also probably have worked for you:
Sheets("chart_sheet").Activate
ActiveChart.SetSourceData Source:=Worksheets("data_sheet").Range("A1:A20")
as chart_sheet is probably not a worksheet, did you try this ?
with sheets("chart_sheet")
