Microsoft KB Archive/89983

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Excel: ChartWizard Changes Title, X Axis, and Y Axis Fonts

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 4.0
 * Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, version 4.0

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SUMMARY
When the Microsoft Excel 4.0 ChartWizard is used to modify an existing chart, any text which is attached to the chart's Title, X Axis, or Y Axis reverts to the default system font.

MORE INFORMATION
The ChartWizard is designed to simplify the creation and modification of charts by presenting the user with different chart options and displaying what the chart will look like before it is actually created. ChartWizard, however, does not allow the formatting of text within its dialogs.

Because of the design of the ChartWizard, if it is used to modify an existing chart, it will change the Title, X Axis and Y Axis Labels to a default system font: in Excel 4.0 for the Macintosh, the font reverted to is Geneva, and in Excel 4.0 for Windows, the font reverted to is either Helv (in Windows 3.0) or MS Sans Serif (in Windows 3.1).

The ChartWizard does not use font information stored in chart template files to prevent this from occurring, nor does it use any font information that is set by the Gallery Set Preferred command or by the Normal Style that is defined on the worksheet containing the source data.