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Setting default bar/column chart fills

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lisamiller13 - 22 Jun 2006 19:39 GMT
I want to set different default bar or column chart fills in my design
template so I don't have to change the fills each time I create a chart. Is
there a way to do that in Powerpoint 2003?
Echo S - 22 Jun 2006 19:43 GMT
If you're choosing from the existing colors in the palette where you choose
fill colors, then sure. Just choose the ones you want and then save it as a
user-defined chart. http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes3.htm has
specifics.

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>I want to set different default bar or column chart fills in my design
> template so I don't have to change the fills each time I create a chart.
> Is
> there a way to do that in Powerpoint 2003?
Steve Rindsberg - 22 Jun 2006 20:35 GMT
> I want to set different default bar or column chart fills in my design
> template so I don't have to change the fills each time I create a chart. Is
> there a way to do that in Powerpoint 2003?

What Echo suggests works but user defined charts are an application-level
setting, per-computer.  In short, when you create them, you can use them in any
presentation on your own computer but you can't give them to me.

The settings aren't part of any template, so if you need to create a template
for a client that includes custom charts/colors, you're pretty much out of
luck.

Custom-written addins can do this but not PPT itself.

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Echo S - 22 Jun 2006 23:37 GMT
Oh, thanks for the catch, Steve. I missed "template" in the original post.

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