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    <p>With an existing chart in a MS Excel for Mac 2008, in AppleScript, I am trying to do two things:</p> <ol> <li>Rotate a 3D chart 1°</li> <li>Save the chart as a image (png)</li> </ol> <p>From what I've found on the Intertubes, it seems possible. But AppleScript's awkward verbosity and the lack of non-trivial MS Excel AppleScript examples on the web are too much for me to overcome.</p> <p>Just for the saving part, this is what I have so far:</p> <pre><code>tell application "Microsoft Excel" activate object worksheet "iozone-16" set cht to chart object 1 of active sheet tell cht #save as chart object [picture type enumeration] [file name Unicode text] #Argh!!! end tell end tell </code></pre> <p>The 'rotate 1°' task seems to involve <em>"internal objects"</em>, but that is as far as I've gotten. By 'rotate', I mean to rotate the chart object itself, not the image. This can be done in with the Format Chart dialog box for ... <a href="http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-ms-excel-dialog-box.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MS Excel Dialog Box http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-ms-excel-dialog-box.png</a></p> <p>By manipulating this value, it the chart object changes as in below these next two images. (15° for effect)</p> <p><a href="http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MS Excel 3D graph example 0 http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-0.png</a> <a href="http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MS Excel 3D graph example 1 http://dietpizza.ch/images/3d-rotation-1.png</a></p>
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