How to find and replace text in chart titles in Excel?

Charts are very useful for us in Excel, and we often give them some titles for identifying them. But have you tried to find and replace the text value in chart titles within multiple charts? Today, I will talk about how to find a specific text in multiple chart tiles and replace them with other value in Excel.

Find and replace text in chart titles in Excel with VBA code

Find and replace text in chart titles in Excel with VBA code

Supposing you have a worksheet which contains the charts as following screenshot shown, and you want to replace the text January by February within all of the chart titles only. Of course, you can change manually them one by one, but this will be time-consuming if there are multiple charts. So here, the following VBA code can help you to deal with this task.< /p>

1. Activate your worksheet which contains the charts you want to find and replace in their titles.

2. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Find and replace text in chart titles within active worksheet

Sub ChartLabelReplace()
'Update 20140603
Dim xWs As Worksheet
Dim xFindStr As String
Dim xReplace As String
xFindStr = Application.InputBox("Find:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)
xReplace = Application.InputBox("Replace:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)
Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet
For Each ch In xWs.ChartObjects
    If ch.Chart.HasTitle Then
        ch.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = VBA.Replace(ch.Chart.ChartTitle.Text, xFindStr, xReplace, 1)
    End If
Next
End Sub

4. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you entering your old text that you want to replace, see screenshot:

5. And then click OK button, and another prompt box pops up, you need to type your new text value that you want to replace the old one, see screenshot:

6. Go on clicking OK to close the prompt box, and your old texts have been replaced by the news at one time in the current worksheet as following screenshot shown:

Note: If you need to find and replace the text value of chart titles in all of the worksheets in a workbook, you should apply the following VBA code: (The procedure is the same as the above)

VBA code: Find and replace text in chart titles within all worksheets

Sub ChartLabelReplaceAllWorksheet()
'Update 20140603
Dim xFindStr As String
Dim xReplace As String
xFindStr = Application.InputBox("Find:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)
xReplace = Application.InputBox("Replace:", xTitleId, "", Type:=2)
For Each sh In Worksheets
    For Each ch In sh.ChartObjects
        If ch.Chart.HasTitle Then
            ch.Chart.ChartTitle.Text = VBA.Replace(ch.Chart.ChartTitle.Text, xFindStr, xReplace, 1)
        End If
    Next
Next
End Sub

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