There is a very cool way, apparently not well known, of adding 'active' or 'live' titles and other text to charts. In this way you can make a change in a worksheet and have that change reflected in a title in the chart. Follow these steps:
=MySheet!$A$1
That's it. Now, whenever the contents of A1 are changed Excel updates the information in the chart's title.
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