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ncalvo
I'm having an odd problem with editing charts in PowerPoint 2007.
Usually charts are read as charts: when I click on an existing chart,
it brings up the Chart Tools toolbar, and double-clicking on a chart
opens what I think of as the new 2007 interface -- an entire Excel
panel on the right-hand side of the screen where you can edit data.
But some of my charts mysteriously converted to objects. When I click
on them, the Drawing toolbar comes up instead of the Chart Tools
toolbar, and when I go to edit them instead of opening a new Excel
panel flips to an Excel view in what had been the chart space, with
tabs where you can go back and forth between the data and the chart.
This is very annoying -- has anyone come across this and figured out a
fix? What makes the charts spontaneously convert to objects? How do
you get them back to charts? I tried right-clicking, choosing
Worksheet Object, and then Convert, but this hasn't had any effect.
Thanks,
Naomi
Usually charts are read as charts: when I click on an existing chart,
it brings up the Chart Tools toolbar, and double-clicking on a chart
opens what I think of as the new 2007 interface -- an entire Excel
panel on the right-hand side of the screen where you can edit data.
But some of my charts mysteriously converted to objects. When I click
on them, the Drawing toolbar comes up instead of the Chart Tools
toolbar, and when I go to edit them instead of opening a new Excel
panel flips to an Excel view in what had been the chart space, with
tabs where you can go back and forth between the data and the chart.
This is very annoying -- has anyone come across this and figured out a
fix? What makes the charts spontaneously convert to objects? How do
you get them back to charts? I tried right-clicking, choosing
Worksheet Object, and then Convert, but this hasn't had any effect.
Thanks,
Naomi