the text matches the format in my code i used for work-- i had cut and pasted to make sure. when i edited to post here, i inadvertently forgot to edit the attribute map. that's not the problem. i've gotten the suggestion sent to work for a bar chart that wasn't in a macro, so perhaps the macro is the problem?? i don't know because after trying so many combinations of things, i switched over to posting on SAS communities. Helena
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