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skar3000 - 02 Jul 2007 12:46 GMT

Hi

We are using Office 2003 sp2, wen we embed charts from Excel the color
randomly changes to either pink or blue (from the customized red).
This happens when we double click to edit the charts, once the color there
is changed back its fine until the document is reopened a couple of times,
then the problem re-occurs.
Chart Axis also swop around in excel(X becomes Z and Z becomes X), could
this be a problem with Microsoft graph?

Any suggestions please?

Thank You
Skar

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Steve Rindsberg - 02 Jul 2007 15:27 GMT

> We are using Office 2003 sp2, wen we embed charts from Excel the color
> randomly changes to either pink or blue (from the customized red).
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> Chart Axis also swop around in excel(X becomes Z and Z becomes X), could
> this be a problem with Microsoft graph?

It doesn't seem likely that MS Graph is the problem; if they're embedded Excel
charts, Graph won't start up when you doubleclick them, Excel will.

I don't know of any reason this'd happen, and the fact that it's random makes
it even harder to track down.

Does the same thing happen when you move the PPT with embedded charts to other
PCs? In other words, does the problem seem to be in the file or in the PC?

Does the problem happen if you start a new presentation and new Excel charts
from a blank presentation and workbook?

If you haven't already done it, start Excel and choose Help, Detect and Repair.
Let that run its course and see if it corrects the problem.

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Echo S - 02 Jul 2007 15:52 GMT

The Excel charts may be updating to match the slide color scheme. How this
works (or not) will depend on which colors were used when the chart was
created. If you used the default colors in Excel (the periwinkle, maroon,
etc.), they may update automatically to match the slide color scheme. (Or
you may be able to do it manually -- see link below). If you used the other
colors in the palette or pulled the colors from another workbook, they
should stay the same as they were.

Here's more info that may help the original poster understand. It's geared
toward PPT's MS Graph, but it's kind of relevant to Excel, too.
http://www.echosvoice.com/charts.htm (read this and the two links on this
page to color schemes and Graph + color schemes). The palette in Excel
doesn't reset to its original colors the way PPT's MS Graph does, though.

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>> We are using Office 2003 sp2, wen we embed charts from Excel the color
>> randomly changes to either pink or blue (from the customized red).
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