Hi i need a bit of help with some ole automation specificaly with updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet using perl. What i am trying to do is update sourceData for "Chart 1" on the Requests sheet. The sourceData for that chart currently has the values of '=Data!$A$1:$A$291,Data!$G$1:$G$291' what i am trying to do change it to '=Data!$A$1:$A$295,Data!$G$1:$G$295' for example. This Excel spreadsheet is already prebuilt contains a number of charts on the request,performance and errors pages. Here is the code: 
sub updateExcelCounters
{
     my $excelToUpdate = shift;
     my @dataFiles    = @_;
     
    ###print "Excel: $excelToUpdate files; @dataFiles .\n";
     
     my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application");
     $Excel->{Visible} = 1;
     
     print "Excel: Opening Excel $excelToUpdate  \n";
     my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($excelToUpdate); # open Excel 
+file
     print "book : $Book\n";
     
     my $DataSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Data"); 
     my $RequestsSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Requests"); 
     my $PerformanceSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Performance"); 
     my $ErrorsSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Errors"); 
     
      my $file;
      foreach $file (@dataFiles)
      {
         if($file =~ /counters\.csv/)
         {
            
            my $line;
            my $Range; 
            my @items;
            my $valueRange;
            my $lastSourceData;
            my $i = 1;
            
            $DataSheet->Activate();
            
            open(IN,"<$file") || die "$!\n";
            while($line = <IN>)
            {
               chomp $line;
               @items = split/,/,$line;
               
               $valueRange = "A" .$i . ":". "I" .$i;
               $Range = $DataSheet->Range($valueRange);
               #print "Range $Range\n";
               ### Create a refrence to @items and insert it into exce
+l
               $Range->{Value} = [\@items];
               $i++;
            }
            close(IN);
            
            ### Get the value that will be user to update all the grap
+hs SourceData with;
            $lastSourceData = $i -1; 
            print "lastSourceData: $lastSourceData \n";
            
            
            $RequestsSheet->Select();
            ### Here we update the graphs sourcedata

            my $Chart1 = $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1");
            $Chart1->Activate();
            my $name = $Chart1->Name();
            print "Chart1 Name: ", $name ,"\n";\
            $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1")->Activate();
            
            $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source => '=Data!\$A\$2:\$A\$295'}
+);
            
           
          } ### Closing if($file

      } ### Closing the foreach    
}

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In reply to OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet by Rom399

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