ChartSheetBase.DisplayBlanksAs Property

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

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property DisplayBlanksAs As XlDisplayBlanksAs
public 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.ChartSheetBase 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

See Also

Reference

ChartSheetBase Class

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel Namespace