Question

I have a worksheet that pulls data from another, it is designed to only show late jobs, and it works perfectly. I have it where it is broken down into quarters, and it gathers all this data and does everything I want.

I have it where it shows charts, there is data in said area the chart would self populate, otherwise it would be blank. If more data is entered into the range expands the chart accordingly.

Attached is a simplified workbook with the solution. This may not be the most eloquent way of doing it, but it works.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3327208/Excel/PAERTO2_1.xlsm

Answer 1

Used named ranges:

• office.microsoft.com (Scroll down 2/3 for relevant information)
• http://www.gilliganondata.com

This may also be referred to as Structured References. From Excel 2010 Help:

Structured references make it much easier and more intuitive to work
with table data when you are using formulas that reference a table –
either portions of a table or the entire table. They are especially
useful because table data ranges often change, and the cell references
for structured references adjust automatically. This minimizes the
need to rewrite formulas as rows and columns are added and deleted in
a table, or when external data is refreshed.

Update

I haven’t used these techniques with Excel 2010 VBA, and the methods and keywords do seem to have changed. I found this hopefully helpful article (see section on “Inserting rows and columns”).