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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:16:21+00:00

I’ve got a spreadsheet with plenty of graphs in it and one sheet with

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I’ve got a spreadsheet with plenty of graphs in it and one sheet with loads of data feeding those graphs.

I’ve plotted the data on each graph using 

=Sheet1!$C5:$C$3000

This basically just plots the values in C5 to C3000 on a graph.

Regularly though I just want to look at a subset of the data i.e. I might just want to look at the first 1000 rows for example. Currently to do this I have to modify the formula in each of my graphs which takes time.

Would you know a way to simplify this? Ideally if I could just have a cell on single sheet that it reads in the row number from and plots all the graphs from C5 to C ‘row number’ would be best.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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  1. OK, I had to do a little more research, here’s how to make it work, completely within the spreadsheet (without VBA):

    Using A1 as the end of your desired range, and the chart being on the same sheet as the data:

    Name the first cell of the data (C5) as a named range, say TESTRANGE.
    Created a named range MYDATA as the following formula:

    =OFFSET(TESTRANGE, 0, 0, Sheet1!$A$1, 1)

    Now, go to the SERIES tab of the chart SOURCE DATA dialog, and change your VALUES statement to:

    =Sheet1!MYDATA

    Now everytime you change the A1 cell value, it’ll change the chart.

    Thanks to Robert Mearns for catching the flaws in my previous answer.

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