ChartArea Interface

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Assembly:

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll

Represents the chart area of a chart. The chart area on a 2-D chart contains the axes, the chart title, the axis titles, and the legend. The chart area on a 3-D chart contains the chart title and the legend; it doesn’t include the plot area (the area within the chart area where the data is plotted). For information about formatting the plot area, see the PlotArea object.

public interface class ChartArea

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("000208CC-0000-0000-C000-000000000046")]
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.InterfaceType(2)]
public interface ChartArea

Public Interface ChartArea

Attributes

GuidAttribute InterfaceTypeAttribute

Remarks

Use the RoundedChartArea property to return the ChartArea object.

Properties

Application	Returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return the application of that object).
AutoScaleFont	True if the text in the object changes font size when the object size changes. The default value is True.
Border	Returns a Border object that represents the border of the object.
Creator	Returns a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which this object was created.
Fill	Returns a FillFormat object for a specified shape or a ChartFillFormat object for a specified chart that contains fill formatting properties for the shape or chart.
Font	Returns a Font object that represents the font of the specified object.
Format	Returns the ChartFormat object. Read-only.
Height	The height, in points, of the object.
Interior	Returns an Interior object that represents the interior of the specified object.
Left	The distance, in points, from the left edge of the object to the left edge of the chart area.
Name	Returns the name of the object.
Parent	Returns the parent object for the specified object.
RoundedCorners	True if the embedded chart has rounded corners. Read/write Boolean.
Shadow	True if the font is a shadow font or if the object has a shadow.
Top	The distance, in points, from the top edge of the object to the top of row 1 (on a worksheet) or the top of the chart area (on a chart).
Width	The width, in points, of the object.

Methods

Clear()	Clears the entire object.
ClearContents()	Clears the data from a chart but leaves the formatting.
ClearFormats()	Clears the formatting of the object.
Copy()	Copies the object to the Clipboard.
Select()	Selects the object.