Thread: Excel charts should have format templates

Power point has them! Word has them!

Ever get sick of the same default colors, fonts and format in the default
excel charts?

Whish you didn't have to go and manually change every chart property each
time you create a chart? Whish you could save your own chart format
templates so that you could apply the same unique format to a group of charts?

Here's some of my chart format template suggestions:

Black and White
Grayscale
Rainbow
Scientific
Presentation
+ a whole lot of others could be added, just like the powerpoint templates.

It's time to bring Excel Charts up to speed!

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting

Here's how:

Creating a Custom (User Defined) Chart Type
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...stomTypes.html

Knock yourself out!

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services - Tutorials and Custom Solutions -
http://PeltierTech.com/
2006 Excel User Conference, 19-21 April, Atlantic City, NJ
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ExcelUserConf06.html
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"Boy from Oz" <Boy from Oz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:62A4A41D-B585-4A3F-9CC1-1118B217827E@microsoft.com...
> Power point has them! Word has them!
>
> Ever get sick of the same default colors, fonts and format in the default
> excel charts?
>
> Whish you didn't have to go and manually change every chart property each
> time you create a chart? Whish you could save your own chart format
> templates so that you could apply the same unique format to a group of
> charts?
>
> Here's some of my chart format template suggestions:
>
> Black and White
> Grayscale
> Rainbow
> Scientific
> Presentation
> + a whole lot of others could be added, just like the powerpoint
> templates.
>
> It's time to bring Excel Charts up to speed!
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting