How can I paste an .xls chart into Word and retain the formatting?  I tried
copying and pasting (with Paste Special and regular Paste) and I am losing
the line spacing when the chart displays in Word.
Is there any way to gain control over this?

This is for Excel 2007 charts---however I'm open to other (free)
user-friendly (ie non-tech savvy) programs
I have three groups/series of data points I would like to plot on a scatter
chart.  The data are growth rates from different fish groups sampled on the

I am using MS Excel 2003 and I am trying to plot a graph/chart/graphical
representation of the following:
I would like to somehow plot :
Time    Price    Meetings

Morning,
Annoying thing about charts in excel - i cant show the tick minor tick marks
or gridlines without showing the major ones.
The x-values in my chart are specified in the table, 70,75,80% etc.  What is

I have a stacked chart with one series showing positive values, and two other
series showing negative values.  When I add data labels, they only appear on
the positive value series.  Even when I click on the negative series, I get
the menu to format the data labels, but in no way ...

I have a problem getting the date to show up as I have it in my column of
data. I only have three dates - 12/22/08, 2/18/09 and 4/14/09. However when I
highlight and create a chart, it continually comes up with 12/1, 1/1, 2/1,
etc. I've tried reformatting to other things, and ...

I have an excel chart.  The horizontal minor gridlines (y-axis) show
correctly.  Some of the vertical minor gridlines (x-axis) are missing.  Any
ideas on how to correct this.  I can turn the minor gridlines off, but I
would like to have them for my content.

The following typical code will crash Excel 2007 SP2 if the active sheet has
a large amount of data (I have in excess of 300 cols and 1000 rows)
Dim chObj as ChartObject
Set chObj = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects.Add(xLeft, xTop, xWidth, xHeight)

I have a table on water usage and cost as you see below.
For earlier bills, I only have total charge and no break-down data as I have
from Sep-06 onward.
I would like to put the charge(s) in bar/column chart, where there are

I am charting the following with a line graph.
10%  10.3
33%   9.6
35%   9.4

For the heaven sake, how can I add a legend to the chart without choosing
different chart style?? Whenever I need to modify a chart I must choose
another style then make my modifications. What on earth was wrong with the
commands of excel 2003 and earlier? They were quite easy to ...

I am trying to insert a stacked chart.
the data is thus
                 jan feb march apr
planned        10

Creating a template to use with basic chart but when certain Xaxis labels
contain specific values that might show in certain data sets, I'd like to
either change the font color or use the interior colorindex property.
In other words,

I am using Office 2000. When I do "View Toolbars" under Word...one of the
options is Tables and Borders. Under Excel, this option is not available. Is
it possible to add this option so that I can customize my spreadsheet
...border width, eraser...etc. Thanks

I have created a vertical stacked color chart, 13 bars, each with 10 colors,
denoting positive and negative volume.  I have selected one of the data sets,
and changed it into a line chart.  When I do this, the X axis labels (Jan,
Feb, Mar, etc.) move up the '0" line of the Y Axis ...