Setting default bar/column chart fills

[Guest]

I want to set different default bar or column chart fills in my design
template so I don't have to change the fills each time I create a chart. Is
there a way to do that in Powerpoint 2003?

 

[Echo S]

If you're choosing from the existing colors in the palette where you choose
fill colors, then sure. Just choose the ones you want and then save it as a
user-defined chart. http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes3.htm has
specifics.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I want to set different default bar or column chart fills in my design
template so I don't have to change the fills each time I create a chart. Is
there a way to do that in Powerpoint 2003?

What Echo suggests works but user defined charts are an application-level
setting, per-computer. In short, when you create them, you can use them in any
presentation on your own computer but you can't give them to me.

The settings aren't part of any template, so if you need to create a template
for a client that includes custom charts/colors, you're pretty much out of
luck.

Custom-written addins can do this but not PPT itself.

 

[Echo S]

Oh, thanks for the catch, Steve. I missed "template" in the original post.