ChartSheet.DisplayBlanksAs Property

Gets or sets the way that blank cells are plotted on a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ChartSheet.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assemblies:   Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.v4.0.Utilities.dll)
  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Property DisplayBlanksAs As XlDisplayBlanksAs

XlDisplayBlanksAs DisplayBlanksAs { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs
One of the following XlDisplayBlanksAs constants: xlNotPlotted, xlInterpolated, or xlZero.

Examples

The following code example uses the DisplayBlanksAs property to specify that the current Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.ChartSheet does not plot blank cells in the data range.

Private Sub DoNotPlotBlanks()

    ' Note that the following data ranges are missing  
    ' values in A5 and B1.
    Globals.Sheet1.Range("A1", "A4").Value2 = 22
    Globals.Sheet1.Range("B2", "B5").Value2 = 55

    Me.SetSourceData(Globals.Sheet1.Range("A1", "B5"), _
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
    Me.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DBarClustered
    Me.DisplayBlanksAs = Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs.xlNotPlotted
End Sub

private void DoNotPlotBlanks()
{
    // Note that the following data ranges are missing  
    // values in A5 and B1.
    Globals.Sheet1.Range["A1", "A4"].Value2 = 22;
    Globals.Sheet1.Range["B2", "B5"].Value2 = 55;

    this.SetSourceData(Globals.Sheet1.Range["A1", "B5"],
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns);
    this.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DBarClustered;
    this.DisplayBlanksAs = Excel.XlDisplayBlanksAs.xlNotPlotted;
}

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

ChartSheet Interface

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Namespace