PP 2000 and the Chart (Graph) module

[Doris Edwards]

Hello,
I am developping a .pot with two specially configured Colour Schemes. I have
also defined User defined charts that are stored in GRUSRGAL.GRA. Everything
works fine.

When in the Graph module, there is a functionnality via the menu
TOOLS/OPTIONS/Color tab. I would like to configure the "Chart Fills" and
"Chart Lines" colors on this tab to reflect the 8 colours used in the
pre-configured Color Scheme, see above.

Unfortunately, the colors are not retained when creating new .ppt files from
the above .pot.

Any ideas how to retain the colors in "Chart Fills" and "Chart Lines" ?

Thanks a lot.
Doris Edwards, Geneva, Switzerland

 

[Echo S]

Unfortunately, I don't think it can be done, Doris. Those "chart fills"
color swatches are based on the template/slide color scheme, with the "chart
lines" swatches being just a standard set of colors.

MS Graph is woefully inadequate for things like this. MS's John Langhans has
been posting in this group lately, and he'd really like to gather feedback
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