I'm attempting to get the trend line equation from the first series in my chart to a shape text box placed elsewhere on the worksheet - however, I can only get the textbox to populate correctly when I'm stepping through the code line by line - during run-time it has no effect:
For Each chtObj In ActiveSheet.ChartObjects
Set cht = chtObj.Chart
For Each srs In chtObj.Chart.SeriesCollection
srs.Trendlines(1).DisplayEquation = True 'Display the labels to get the value
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("MyDataSheet").Shapes(slopetextboxes(k)).TextFrame.Characters.Text = srs.Trendlines(1).DataLabel.Text
srs.Trendlines(1).DisplayEquation = False 'Turn it back off
Exit For
Next srs
k = k + 1 ' for the slope textboxes
Next chtObj
Note that slopetextboxes
is an array containing the names of ~6 shape text boxes.
As far as I know there's no way to get the trend line data label without stopping to display it. I've tried storing it in a string first, DoEvents
, and turning Application.ScreenUpdating
back on, all to no avail. I'm stumped here.
EDIT: It appears that by placing DoEvents
after .DisplayEquation = True
I'm able to have some of my shapes populate correctly, but not all. Still appears to be some kind of run-time issue.
BOUNTY EDIT: I've moved ahead to grab the slopes with a formula ran into the data itself, but I still don't understand why I can't grab the chart's .DataLabel.Text
during run-time. I can grab it when stepping through, not during run-time. It appears to just take the PREVIOUS series slope and place it in the shape (or a cell, it doesn't even matter where the destination is). DoEvents
placed in different spots yields different outcomes, so something must be going on.
Updated with better understanding of the bug. This works for me in excel 2016 with multiple changes to the source data (and therefore the slope)
I tried myChart.refresh - didnt work. I tried deleting and then re-adding the entire trendline, also didnt work.
This works for everything but the first case. First case needs to be hit twice. Same as for .select
If you try and delete trendline even after assigning its text to textbox, this wont work
Option Explicit
Sub main()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim txtbox As OLEObject
Dim chartObject As chartObject
Dim myChart As chart
Dim myChartSeriesCol As SeriesCollection
Dim myChartSeries As Series
Dim myChartTrendLines As Trendlines
Dim myTrendLine As Trendline
Set ws = Sheets("MyDataSheet")
Set txtbox = ws.OLEObjects("TextBox1")
For Each chartObject In ws.ChartObjects
Set myChart = chartObject.chart
Set myChartSeriesCol = myChart.SeriesCollection
Set myChartSeries = myChartSeriesCol(1)
Set myChartTrendLines = myChartSeries.Trendlines
With myChartTrendLines
If .Count = 0 Then
.Add
End If
End With
Set myTrendLine = myChartTrendLines.Item(1)
With myTrendLine
.DisplayEquation = True
txtbox.Object.Text = .DataLabel.Text
End With
Next chartObject
End Sub
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