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Asked: 2026-05-15T15:06:34+00:00

Having been able to add data to an Excel spreadsheet from F# using the

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Having been able to add data to an Excel spreadsheet from F# using the answer at

F# and Excel integration for .NET 4.0 (Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1)

I find myself unable to figure out how to use the data inserted to create a chart (programmatically in Excel using F#). How can this be done?

I am using Excel 2007 (Office 12 component) and F# 2.0, if that is relevant.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have an example that shows how to do that in Real-World Functional Programming book. The Chapter 13 first downloads some data, then adds them to Excel and creates a graph.

    The following snippet isn’t a complete (working) code, because it relies on some objects constructed earlier, but it could give you an idea how to do that:

    // Add new item to the charts collection
let chartobjects = (worksheet.ChartObjects() :?> ChartObjects) 
let chartobject = chartobjects.Add(400.0, 20.0, 550.0, 350.0) 

// Configure the chart using the wizard
chartobject.Chart.ChartWizard
  (Title = "Area covered by forests",
   Source = worksheet.Range("B2", "E" + endColumn),
   Gallery = XlChartType.xl3DColumn, PlotBy = XlRowCol.xlColumns,
   SeriesLabels = 1, CategoryLabels = 1,
   CategoryTitle = "", ValueTitle = "Forests (mil km^2)")

// Set graphical style of the chart
chartobject.Chart.ChartStyle <- 5
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