diff --git a/google_chart_tools_views/views/google_chart_tools_views_plugin_style.inc b/google_chart_tools_views/views/google_chart_tools_views_plugin_style.inc
index 555ce7c..0547e53 100644
--- a/google_chart_tools_views/views/google_chart_tools_views_plugin_style.inc
+++ b/google_chart_tools_views/views/google_chart_tools_views_plugin_style.inc
@@ -137,16 +137,26 @@ class google_chart_tools_views_plugin_style extends views_plugin_style {
     if (isset($this->options['grouping'][0])) {
       _google_chart_tools_apply_grouping_conversion($header, $item, $this->options['type']);
     }
+    // more flexible to allow for future option replacement
+    $option_substitutions = array('vaxis_title', 'haxis_title', 'title');
     // Allow the use of view build info substitutions
-    if (isset($this->view->build_info['substitutions'])) {
+    if (count($this->view->build_info['substitutions'])) {
       $substitutions = $this->view->build_info['substitutions'];
-      // more flexible to allow for future option replacement
-      $option_substitutions = array('vaxis_title', 'haxis_title', 'title');
       // loop through and replace view-tokens
       foreach ($option_substitutions as $option_name) {
         $this->options[$option_name] = str_replace(array_keys($substitutions), array_values($substitutions), $this->options[$option_name]);
       }
     }
+    else if (count($this->view->argument)) {
+      // check for null substitutions if argument was empty
+      foreach ($option_substitutions as $option_name) {
+        for ($i=1; $i<(count($this->view->argument)+1); $i++) {
+          // replace ! and % to account for both substitution types
+          $this->options[$option_name] = str_replace("!$i", '', $this->options[$option_name]);
+          $this->options[$option_name] = str_replace("%$i", '', $this->options[$option_name]);
+        }
+      }
+    }
     $settings['chart'][drupal_clean_css_identifier($this->view->name . '-' . $this->display->id)] = array(  
       'header' => !empty($header) ? $header : '',
       'rows' => $item,