Using LO 7.5.4.2 on a G2 Mac 6/11/24. Chart updates when I hit Enter for new data in an existing charted cell. It fails to update when I add new rows of data, even after a Save of the file or resizing of the chart.
Here’s a slightly tedious work-around of that one problem:
Double-click the chart to select it, use the Format pull-down, Data Ranges… line, and manually edit the row numbers (they appear twice).
There’s got to be a better way, and for other expansions (adding columns, e.g.)
(Apple’s touchy-feely Numbers app has one that’s less tedious but probably rather limited: Double-click to select the chart, click the “edit data references” button that pops up, and drag the boundary of the already charted cell to include the new one. Too bad the Cupertino kids had chosen to impose a proprietary file format and not let users just plug away in xls or ods, eh?)
I see lots of posts about this, and suggest that auto-updating of charts should be high on the developers’ do-list. If some users need no automaton, there could be a Settings entry to opt-out (or in). Maybe even an easily found option to allow for expansion of the chart when lines or columns get added.