How to suppress Excel warning "Complex formatting" in VBA?

[Robrt]

Hi everyone,

I have a VBA code which creates (and formats) a scatter chart from 7 columns and 3000 lines of data. Every time when the chart is created I get a warning box: "Complex formatting that is applied to the selected chart may take a while to display. Do you want to continue to use the formatting?" and I need to click "Yes" to confirm. I don't like this!

I searched this forum and the only possible solution I found was to use "Application.DisplayAlerts = False". This seems to work for all other warnings (like worksheet deleted, etc.), but not for the complex chart formatting. I have placed the "Application.DisplayAlerts = False" on the very beginning of my code and "Application.DisplayAlerts = True" on the very end.

Can anyone advise what needs to be done to suppress the "Complex formatting" warning in Excel?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[RCBricker]

Hi everyone,

I have a VBA code which creates (and formats) a scatter chart from 7 columns and 3000 lines of data. Every time when the chart is created I get a warning box: "Complex formatting that is applied to the selected chart may take a while to display. Do you want to continue to use the formatting?" and I need to click "Yes" to confirm. I don't like this!

I searched this forum and the only possible solution I found was to use "Application.DisplayAlerts = False". This seems to work for all other warnings (like worksheet deleted, etc.), but not for the complex chart formatting. I have placed the "Application.DisplayAlerts = False" on the very beginning of my code and "Application.DisplayAlerts = True" on the very end.

Can anyone advise what needs to be done to suppress the "Complex formatting" warning in Excel?

Many thanks in advance!

never tried this, but my research on your issues shows this as a possible solution:

Application.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

my understanding is that you would enter that into your code where the warning is firing.

Link to solution:

Supress "Complex formatting that is applied to the selected chart..." message?

 

[Robrt]

never tried this, but my research on your issues shows this as a possible solution:

Application.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

my understanding is that you would enter that into your code where the warning is firing.

Link to solution:

Supress "Complex formatting that is applied to the selected chart..." message?

Many thanks for your quick reply!

Your solution works and I no longer have to press ENTER (or click OK), however it has an interesting side effect. Every time this code is executed - NumLock on my keyboard is switched off. Although this is somehow less annoying than the need to press ENTER, it would be also nice to avoid.