Vba change marker size and color in Excel

For example, I have a Chart ("Chart1") comparing the sales figures of 3 Salespersons - I want to set the Marker Size to "4", Marker Type to "Round" and Marker Line Color to "Black" for all the 3 series in Chart.

excel vba change marker size and color

To do it in Excel, here is the answer:

  1. Option Explicit
  2. Sub MarkerSettingsUpdate()
  3. Dim seriesChart As Series
  4. ''
  5. For Each seriesChart In ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart1").Chart.SeriesCollection
  6. seriesChart.Select
  7. With Selection
  8. .MarkerStyle = 8
  9. .MarkerSize = 4
  10. .MarkerForegroundColor = RGB(0, 0, 0)
  11. End With
  12. ''
  13. Next seriesChart
  14. End Sub

Description:

a) Line 5 loops through all series in Chart1.

b) Line 8 , Line 9 and Line 10 sets the Marker properties for the selected series.

Result after Macro execution:

excel vba change marker size and color

 

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