how do I fill objects with a pattern in Office 2007?

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I do not see an option to fill objects with a striped, checkered, or stiplled
pattern in powerpoint or excel for Office2007. This is annoying, especially
when preparing charts and figures for publication in a journal that either
does not allow or charges exorbitant fees for publishing color images. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Pattern fill was removed in 2007. You can replace this function by creating
a small picture of the pattern you want and then tiling the shape with these
pattern pictures.


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Couple of ideas then:

Create the shape / fill in Word and copy paste to PowerPoint.

Create a pattern filled rectangle with no outline as above in Word and copy.
In PowerPoint use a texture fill. Go to More textures and choose "Picture /
Texture Fill" click "Clipboard" and tick "Tile picture as Texture"

You can force 2007 to use the old msgraph if you need pattern fills (Excel
is much better though) with a registry hack

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Charting
Create a DWord "MSGraphEnable" and set it to "1" for MSGraph and "0" for
Excel graphs
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