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Text boxes-help
I think I answered this already, but I don't see the post.
So now that you know what it is supposed to do, I really don't understand why when I try to drag the text boxes onto the graphic, they do not show and yet when I manually draw a text box outside the graphic and drag it, it shows???? If you drag a text box from anywhere over a chart, it is not part of the chart, it is just floating in Excel's drawing layer above the worksheet, the same layer where the chart floats. It might be above the chart or below it, depending on which was created first, and whether you've used the bring to front/send to back buttons. The one that was made before the chart is underneath the chart, while the one you made after the chart is above the chart. Such a textbox is not part of a chart, even if it's visible on top of the chart. Move the chart, and the text box stays where it was. the problem is that I have 3 columms of data to copy and paste and am not able to select all three at the same time and paste them into the graphic simultaneously so they are all in only 1 text box..... You need a copy and paste for each text box you want to put into the chart. If you already have multiple text boxes in the sheet, you can select and copy them all and paste them into the chart. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Bourbon wrote: That is great Jon, thanks. But I am still perplexed. My program does the following: I have 4 columms of data (Dates, stock prices, recommendations, target price):1) It graphs the Dates and stock price columms, 2) when it finds data in the Recommendations columm, it creates a text box in the 5th columm (E), next to the target price columm (D). Thus my text boxes are created automatically and so is my graph... The next part is that I will write a code so that columms A,C and D are copied and pasted into the preexisting text boxes when ever a text box is present and then dragged into the graphic (just below the title, so each text box is side by side and a line will be drawn pointing down to the corresponding dates on the graph line).. So now that you know what it is supposed to do, I really don't understand why when I try to drag the text boxes onto the graphic, they do not show and yet when I manually draw a text box outside the graphic and drag it, it shows???? This has me very confused! I was thinking of your suggestion to simply copy and paste directly into the graph and it will automatically create a text box but the problem is that I have 3 columms of data to copy and paste and am not able to select all three at the same time and paste them into the graphic simultaneously so they are all in only 1 text box.....Do you know how I can select the data inside 3 different cells simultaneously (a kind of Ctrl-C but that will select the data and not the entier cell).. This is a very long question but it has me very confused and &?&%?$&*%%$............ Thanks again Jon B. --- Message posted from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ |
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