Can't find the chart / plot area from Trace Precedents

cothren21

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I have a massive file with dozens of tabs and several hundred charts. Frequently, I will check to see what uses a cell before I delete it, but I keep running into this:

I will click the cell, select trace precedents, and it says it goes to a chart (plot area). But how do I figure out which chart it goes into? As mentioned, there are literally hundreds.. I am struggling to find the solution on the web, Please HELP!
 

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1) click tab [Formulas]
2) select [trace Dependents]
3) select the cell you need to check
4) result show in the function bar

hope it helps
 
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What you see is an arrow indicating cells on OTHER WORKSHEETS which point to cell B5. You can double-click the small table-like icon to open the Goto dialog which should contain a list of those references.

The Trace precedents and dependents options only looks at formulas in cells, it does not look at any other objects such as charts or pivot tables. I have a tool which is capable of doing that which has a free demo version to test: The Ultimate Excel Formula Auditing and Tracing Tool: RefTreeAnalyser
 
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