XL: Can't Link Chart Title to Names Containing Text

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
• Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel, if you link a chart title to a defined name containing text, you receive the following error message:

External reference is not valid.

WORKAROUND

To link a chart title to a defined name containing text on a workbook, do the following:

1. Define a name on a workbook with the following steps:
   
   
   1. In a worksheet, from the Insert menu, choose Name, and then choose Define.
   
   
   
   2. In the Names in Workbook box, type the name you want to define. Click in the Refers To box, and then select a cell on the worksheet below the Define Name dialog box.
   
   
   
   3. Choose OK.
   
   
   



2. Select the chart.



3. If your chart already has a title, skip to step 4. If it does not, choose Titles from the Insert menu. Under Attach Text To, select the desired title check box, and choose OK.



4. Select the title you want to link to the defined name, and click in the formula bar.



5. Type the workbook name followed by the defined name. For example

   =BOOK1.XLS!Sales

   where Sales is the name you defined in Step 1. Press ENTER.



6. Select a sheet in the workbook, and from the Insert menu, choose Name, and then choose Define. Select the name you defined in Step 1, and in the Refers To box, type the actual text you want the name to refer to. For example, type

   =$A$5&" Sales Figures"

   and choose OK.

REFERENCES

For more information about Editing Titles And Text Boxes, choose the Search button in Help and type:

chart titles

Additional query words: 5.00c

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Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0c,7.0
Platform : WINDOWS
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