Text boxes

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I have code that creates a graphic and text boxes automatically. But
when I try add drag the text box over the graphic its is masked by the
graph and does not go "on top of it". I don't understand why because
when I manually draw a text box and drag it over the graph it shows? I
checked the properties and they are the same. WHat could be worng?
Thanks
B.
 
Checked the z-order of the respective objects?

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If you want the textbox incorporated into the chart, select the chart
before drawing the textbox. Or select the chart, then start typing, and
your text will be placed into a textbox.

- Jon
 
That is great Jon, thanks. But I am still perplexed. My program does th
following: I have 4 columms of data (Dates, stock prices
recommendations, target price):1) It graphs the Dates and stock pric
columms, 2) when it finds data in the Recommendations columm, i
creates a text box in the 5th columm (E), next to the target pric
columm (D). Thus my text boxes are created automatically and so is m
graph...

The next part is that I will write a code so that columms A,C and D ar
copied and pasted into the preexisting text boxes when ever a text bo
is present and then dragged into the graphic (just below the title, s
each text box is side by side and a line will be drawn pointing down t
the corresponding dates on the graph line)..

So now that you know what it is supposed to do, I really don'
understand why when I try to drag the text boxes onto the graphic, the
do not show and yet when I manually draw a text box outside the graphi
and drag it, it shows????

This has me very confused!

I was thinking of your suggestion to simply copy and paste directl
into the graph and it will automatically create a text box but th
problem is that I have 3 columms of data to copy and paste and am no
able to select all three at the same time and paste them into th
graphic simultaneously so they are all in only 1 text box.....Do yo
know how I can select the data inside 3 different cells simultaneousl
(a kind of Ctrl-C but that will select the data and not the entie
cell)..

This is a very long question but it has me very confused an
&?&%?$&*%%$............

Thanks again Jon
B
 
So now that you know what it is supposed to do, I really don't
understand why when I try to drag the text boxes onto the graphic,
they do not show and yet when I manually draw a text box outside the
graphic and drag it, it shows????
Click to expand...

If the text boxes are there first, the chart is drawn on top of them. If
the text box is drawn later, it is on top. You can use the Bring to
Front and Send to Back buttons under the drawing command bar hierarchy
to adjust the Z order.

But it's better to have the text boxes in the chart, so if the chart is
moved, the text boxes don't stay put. You have to draw them one at a
time, you can't make multiple textboxes all at once. To put the content
of multiple cells into a single text box, you could concatenate them
into another textbox first.

- Jon
 
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