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ChartSheet.PlotBy Property

Gets or sets the way columns or rows are used as data series on the Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ChartSheet.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assemblies:   Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities.dll)
  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Property PlotBy As XlRowCol
XlRowCol PlotBy { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlRowCol
One of the following XlRowCol constants: xlColumns or xlRows.

Remarks

For PivotChart reports, this property is read-only and always returns xlColumns.

Examples

The following code example uses the PlotBy property to set the current Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ChartSheet to display data by rows.

Private Sub PlotByRows()
    Globals.Sheet1.Range("A1", "A5").Value2 = 22
    Globals.Sheet1.Range("B1", "B5").Value2 = 55

    Me.SetSourceData(Globals.Sheet1.Range("A1", "B5"), _
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
    Me.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DBarClustered
    Me.PlotBy = Excel.XlRowCol.xlRows
End Sub
private void PlotByRows()
{
    Globals.Sheet1.Range["A1", "A5"].Value2 = 22;
    Globals.Sheet1.Range["B1", "B5"].Value2 = 55;

    this.SetSourceData(Globals.Sheet1.Range["A1", "B5"],
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns);
    this.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DBarClustered; 
    this.PlotBy = Excel.XlRowCol.xlRows;
}

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See Also

Reference

ChartSheet Interface

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Namespace