ChartSheetBase.ColumnGroups Method

Article
01/07/2014

On a 2-D chart, returns an object that represents either a single column chart group (a ChartGroup object) or a collection of the column chart groups (a ChartGroups collection).

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function ColumnGroups ( _
    index As Object _
) As Object

public Object ColumnGroups(
    Object index
)

Parameters

index
Type: System.Object

Specifies the chart group.

Return Value

Type: System.Object

Remarks

Optional Parameters

For information on optional parameters, see Optional Parameters in Office Solutions.

Examples

The following code example uses the ColumnGroups method to set the distance between columns in the current Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ChartSheetBase.

Private Sub UseColumnGroups()
    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.xlColumnClustered

    Dim group As Excel.ChartGroup = _
        CType(Me.ColumnGroups(1), Excel.ChartGroup)
    group.GapWidth = 400
End Sub

private void UseColumnGroups()
{
    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.xlColumnClustered;

    Excel.ChartGroup group =
        (Excel.ChartGroup)this.ColumnGroups(1);
    group.GapWidth = 400;
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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