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PPT: PowerPoint Overrides Default Graph Color Scheme

Article ID: 140650

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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This article was previously published under Q140650

SYMPTOMS

PowerPoint overrides the custom color information saved with the Microsoft Graph default graph. When you insert a new graph, PowerPoint uses the colors in the Slide Color Scheme, not the colors saved in the default graph file.

CAUSE

PowerPoint sends the colors in the Slide Color Scheme to Microsoft Graph. This changes the first six colors on Graph's palette. This behavior is to ensure that the graph uses colors that go well with the rest of the presentation.

PowerPoint uses most of the rest of the settings stored in the default graph file.

WORKAROUND

If you want to create a graph that uses colors other than the Slide Color Scheme colors, follow these steps:
  1. Create a new graph. Choose the colors you want in the graph. Exit and return to your presentation.
  2. Click Recolor on the Tools Menu (in PowerPoint 4.0 and 7.0) or the Object Menu (in PowerPoint 3.0).
  3. Click the Text And Background Only button.
  4. Click OK.
The graph now retains your customized colors. You can also duplicate this graph, and the duplicate will retain the custom colors.

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