Chart.DisplayBlanksAs Property
Gets or sets the way that blank cells are plotted on a chart.
Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Property DisplayBlanksAs As XlDisplayBlanksAs
XlDisplayBlanksAs DisplayBlanksAs { get; set; }
Property Value
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs
One of the following XlDisplayBlanksAs values: xlNotPlotted, xlInterpolated, or xlZero.
Examples
The following code example creates a Chart and then uses the DisplayBlanksAs property to specify that blank cells are not plotted in the data range of the chart.
Private Sub DisableBlankPlotting()
' Note that the following data ranges are missing
' values in A5 and B1.
Me.Range("A1", "A4").Value2 = 22
Me.Range("B2", "B5").Value2 = 55
Dim Chart1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart = _
Me.Controls.AddChart(Me.Range("D2", "H12"), "Chart1")
Chart1.SetSourceData(Me.Range("A1", "B5"), Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
Chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DColumn
Chart1.DisplayBlanksAs = Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs.xlNotPlotted
End Sub
private void DisableBlankPlotting()
{
// Note that the following data ranges are
// missing values in A5 and B1.
this.Range["A1", "A4"].Value2 = 22;
this.Range["B2", "B5"].Value2 = 55;
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart chart1 =
this.Controls.AddChart(this.Range["D2", "H12"],
"chart1");
chart1.SetSourceData(this.Range["A1", "B5"],
Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns);
chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DColumn;
chart1.DisplayBlanksAs =
Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs.xlNotPlotted;
}
.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.