how do I fill objects with a pattern in Office 2007?

[tn]

I do not see an option to fill objects with a striped, checkered, or stiplled
pattern in powerpoint or excel for Office2007. This is annoying, especially
when preparing charts and figures for publication in a journal that either
does not allow or charges exorbitant fees for publishing color images. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Pattern fill was removed in 2007. You can replace this function by creating
a small picture of the pattern you want and then tiling the shape with these
pattern pictures.


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[John Wilson]

Couple of ideas then:

Create the shape / fill in Word and copy paste to PowerPoint.

Create a pattern filled rectangle with no outline as above in Word and copy.
In PowerPoint use a texture fill. Go to More textures and choose "Picture /
Texture Fill" click "Clipboard" and tick "Tile picture as Texture"

You can force 2007 to use the old msgraph if you need pattern fills (Excel
is much better though) with a registry hack

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Charting
Create a DWord "MSGraphEnable" and set it to "1" for MSGraph and "0" for
Excel graphs
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