Article ID: 174447
Article Last Modified on 4/21/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q174447
SYMPTOMS
If you change the style, color, or weight of the gridlines on a chart, the changes do not appear in the chart, or you may receive the following error message:
If you click Details, you receive an error message similar to the following:
CAUSE
These problems occur when you attempt to change the style, color, or weight of gridlines on a surface chart. If you try to modify the style, color, or weight of the value axis gridlines (click "Value Axis Major Gridlines" on the Chart toolbar), changes do not appear in the chart.
If you try to change any of the following gridlines
Category Axis Major Gridlines
Series Axis Major Gridlines
Category Axis Minor Gridlines
Series Axis Minor Gridlines
Value Axis Minor Gridlines
Microsoft Excel unexpectedly quits, and you receive the error message described in the "Symptoms" section in this article.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem no longer occurs in Microsoft Excel 2000.
REFERENCES
For more information about surface charts, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text:
surface
and then double-click the selected text to go to "Examples of chart types (surface)" topic.
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