Default chart colours

[Mark]

Hello,

Is there a way to change the default colours for a chart when it is inserted
into a Word document?

I can change the colours on an existing chart, but when I insert a new
graph, the colours revert to the old ones.

I have created a chart the way it needs to be, and have modified the chart
fills and line colours and have created a "user defined custom chart"
formatting style based on this. But, when I insert a new chart and apply this
style, some elements of the chart change, but the colours revert back to the
old default.

Is there a way to fix this?

(Same problem on WinXP and 2000)

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

After you have saved the chart colors as a custom chart, I believe there is
a check box to make that chart type the default.

 

[Mark]

No, this makes it keep all the attributes EXCEPT the colours. The only way to
keep these colours is to copy this chart and then modify it. Inserting a new
graph reverts the colours.
There must be a way.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not seeing that here. If I set a custom black-and-white chart as the
default chart, that's what I get the next time I insert a chart in a given
document, and the choice seems to stick when I create a new document as
well.

 

[Mark]

But this is making a black and white chart. When I assign specific
user-defined colours, they do not hold over to the new charts.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, one of my charts has user-defined colors.

 

[Mark]

Really? Do all of the colours remain? We have sound that some do, while
others revert. There seems to be no reason why this is so.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I haven't really had enough experience with this to be sure. I do know that
I have always found the version of MS Graph used in Word very difficult to
deal with; the Excel charting facility is reportedly better, though even it
has some bugs. All this will be better in Office 12, I believe.

 

[Mark]

Thanks for your responses, Suzanne. I appreciate it.

Hopefully things will improve with the new version. Office seems to be
riddled with obscure bugs that most people never come across.