Article ID: 171234
Article Last Modified on 11/11/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q171234
SYMPTOMS
After you apply a user-defined chart type to a chart, Microsoft Excel 97 may fail to apply the specified colors to trendline equation labels in the chart.
CAUSE
This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:
- You create a custom chart type for a chart based on data in a range of cells. -and-
- You specify a different color for each trendline label. -and-
- You apply the custom chart type to a chart based on data in a range of cells with more rows and/or columns than the range on which the original chart is based.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, reapply the custom chart type to the chart. To do this, follow these steps:
- Select the chart.
- On the Chart menu, click Chart Type.
- Click the Custom Types tab.
- Click User-defined in the Select From box.
- Click the custom type that you created and click OK.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: XL97
Keywords: kbchart kbprb KB171234
