Microsoft Graph

[Esther]

I have both Office 2007 and Office 2003 installed on my Windows-computer.
Because I want to instruct others on the use of graphs in Office, I try to
find out exactly how each program in the Office-suite is making graphs.

The problem is that with installing Office 2007, Office 2003 now uses Graph
version 12, which, as far as I know, is delivered with Office 2007. So I
don't know the normal situation with Office 2003.

My questions:
- is there a difference between Graph 11 and Graph 12? If yes, what is it?
- am I correct assuming that Graph 12 is only delivered with Office 2007
because of compatibility reasons, in other words, when you make a graph in
Office 2007, you don't use Microsoft Graph?
- am I correct that both Excel 2003 and 2007 don't use Microsoft Graph but
have their own graph-maker?
- am I correct that Powerpoint 2003 normally uses Graph 11, and Powerpoint
2007 normally uses Excel-graphs?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have both Office 2007 and Office 2003 installed on my Windows-computer.
Because I want to instruct others on the use of graphs in Office, I try to
find out exactly how each program in the Office-suite is making graphs.

The problem is that with installing Office 2007, Office 2003 now uses Graph
version 12, which, as far as I know, is delivered with Office 2007. So I
don't know the normal situation with Office 2003.

My questions:
- is there a difference between Graph 11 and Graph 12? If yes, what is it?

I can't help with that but ...

- am I correct assuming that Graph 12 is only delivered with Office 2007
because of compatibility reasons, in other words, when you make a graph in
Office 2007, you don't use Microsoft Graph?

That's correct. There's a registry setting you can change to force office
2007 apps to use MSGraph, but by default, they use Excel now.

- am I correct that both Excel 2003 and 2007 don't use Microsoft Graph but
have their own graph-maker?
Yes.

- am I correct that Powerpoint 2003 normally uses Graph 11, and Powerpoint
2007 normally uses Excel-graphs?

Yes.

Hope that helps.