Me again!

I am setting up a template for users and would like to be able to offer some
standard chart formats e.g. Clustered Column, Stacked Column, 100% Stacked
Column and the standard 2D pie.

I have created my colour scheme and so the charts pick up the template
colours which is great. However, I also want the standard column charts to
have no gridlines, plot area or plot border shading. I can create these
charts but how do I get the standard charts the users see to reflect these
formatting changes?

I am using 2003

You'll have to add the charts to slides in the presentation and let your
folks edit the values within them and delete pages/charts they don't use.

There's currently no option for creating customized chart templates.
--
Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
PowerPoint MVP
http://www.pptmagic.com



"Mary Ann" wrote:

> Me again!
>
> I am setting up a template for users and would like to be able to offer some
> standard chart formats e.g. Clustered Column, Stacked Column, 100% Stacked
> Column and the standard 2D pie.
>
> I have created my colour scheme and so the charts pick up the template
> colours which is great. However, I also want the standard column charts to
> have no gridlines, plot area or plot border shading. I can create these
> charts but how do I get the standard charts the users see to reflect these
> formatting changes?
>
> I am using 2003

> I have created my colour scheme and so the charts pick up the template
> colours which is great. However, I also want the standard column charts to
> have no gridlines, plot area or plot border shading. I can create these
> charts but how do I get the standard charts the users see to reflect these
> formatting changes?

I don't believe you can. The standard charts are "hard-coded" into MSGraph.

It's possible to write add-ins that give the user a button or menu choice
which, when clicked, adds a new slide with a chart of the appropriate type,
ready-formatted to spec, but that takes a substantial amount of coding.

Some of the info here might be useful as well:

MS Graph Custom Chart Types
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00278.htm



-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

Thank you. I shan't wste any more time trying to do something that can't be
done without a lot of code!

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> > I have created my colour scheme and so the charts pick up the template
> > colours which is great. However, I also want the standard column charts to
> > have no gridlines, plot area or plot border shading. I can create these
> > charts but how do I get the standard charts the users see to reflect these
> > formatting changes?
>
> I don't believe you can. The standard charts are "hard-coded" into MSGraph.
>
> It's possible to write add-ins that give the user a button or menu choice
> which, when clicked, adds a new slide with a chart of the appropriate type,
> ready-formatted to spec, but that takes a substantial amount of coding.
>
> Some of the info here might be useful as well:
>
> MS Graph Custom Chart Types
> http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00278.htm
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
> ================================================
>
>
>

Thank you. I shan't wste any more time trying to do something that can't be
done.

"PPTMagician" wrote:

> You'll have to add the charts to slides in the presentation and let your
> folks edit the values within them and delete pages/charts they don't use.
>
> There's currently no option for creating customized chart templates.
> --
> Thanks,
> Glenna Shaw
> PowerPoint MVP
> http://www.pptmagic.com
>
>
>
> "Mary Ann" wrote:
>
> > Me again!
> >
> > I am setting up a template for users and would like to be able to offer some
> > standard chart formats e.g. Clustered Column, Stacked Column, 100% Stacked
> > Column and the standard 2D pie.
> >
> > I have created my colour scheme and so the charts pick up the template
> > colours which is great. However, I also want the standard column charts to
> > have no gridlines, plot area or plot border shading. I can create these
> > charts but how do I get the standard charts the users see to reflect these
> > formatting changes?
> >
> > I am using 2003