Charts in slide master

[Rich Weil]

Hello,

I'm trying to change the default colors of lines and fonts in charts. I try
to do this in slide master but it puts a chart in every slide. Is there a
way to do this? WinXP Home, PPT 2002.

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rich,

You need to set the color schemes. http://www.echosvoice.com has great
tutorials to help.

Glenna

 

[Echo S]

Hello,

I'm trying to change the default colors of lines and fonts in charts. I try
to do this in slide master but it puts a chart in every slide. Is there a
way to do this? WinXP Home, PPT 2002.

Thank you.

Hi, Rich,

Unfortunately, PPT doesn't have a master slide with a graph on it.

As the others have explained, the initial colors in your chart will be based
on your slide color scheme. If you're trying to set a default chart style,
though, you can only do this for your own computer. You'd create a graph the
way you want it to look, then you'd use Chart/Chart Types and choose Custom
Types Tab and hit the User-Defined button. Then you can add that chart style
to your user-defined charts.

The problem is that this is a machine-specific setting, and it doesn't
travel with a presentation or a template. The easiest way around this that I
know is to create a slide (not a master) with a chart formatted as you want
it, then copy this slide every time you need a chart. Then simply change the
data in the datasheet.

 

[Rich Weil]

Thanks all. I will take a look at the web sites and follow through on Echo's
suggestion to create a chart template.

Thanks again.
Rich

Hello,

I'm trying to change the default colors of lines and fonts in charts. I try
to do this in slide master but it puts a chart in every slide. Is there a
way to do this? WinXP Home, PPT 2002.

Thank you.

Hi, Rich,

Unfortunately, PPT doesn't have a master slide with a graph on it.

As the others have explained, the initial colors in your chart will be based
on your slide color scheme. If you're trying to set a default chart style,
though, you can only do this for your own computer. You'd create a graph the
way you want it to look, then you'd use Chart/Chart Types and choose Custom
Types Tab and hit the User-Defined button. Then you can add that chart style
to your user-defined charts.

The problem is that this is a machine-specific setting, and it doesn't
travel with a presentation or a template. The easiest way around this that I
know is to create a slide (not a master) with a chart formatted as you want
it, then copy this slide every time you need a chart. Then simply change the
data in the datasheet.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com