PlotArea Interface

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel

Assembly:: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll

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Represents the plot area of a chart. This is the area where your chart data is plotted.

public interface class PlotArea

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

Public Interface PlotArea

Attributes: GuidAttribute InterfaceTypeAttribute

Remarks

The plot area on a 2-D chart contains the data markers, gridlines, data labels, trendlines, and optional chart items placed in the chart area. The plot area on a 3-D chart contains all the above items plus the walls, floor, axes, axis titles, and tick-mark labels in the chart. The plot area is surrounded by the chart area. 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. For information about formatting the chart area, see the ChartArea object.

Use the PlotArea property to return a PlotArea object.

Properties

_InsideHeight	Reserved for internal use.
_InsideLeft	Reserved for internal use.
_InsideTop	Reserved for internal use.
_InsideWidth	Reserved for internal use.
Application	Returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application.
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 ChartFillFormat object for a specified chart that contains fill formatting properties for the chart.
Format	Returns the ChartFormat object. Read-only.
Height	The height, in points, of the object.
InsideHeight	Returns the inside height of the plot area in points.
InsideLeft	Returns the distance from the chart edge to the inside left edge of the plot area in points.
InsideTop	Returns the distance in points from the chart edge to the inside top edge of the plot area.
InsideWidth	Returns the inside width of the plot area in points.
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.
Position	Returns or sets the position of the plot area on the chart. Read/write.
Top	The distance, in points, from the top edge of the object to the top of the chart area.
Width	The width, in points, of the object.

Methods

ClearFormats()	Clears the formatting of the object.
Select()	Selects the object.

Applies to

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