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.

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi Rich,

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

Glenna

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

I think the fonts and lines in charts use the default text colors that are
part of PowerPoint's color schemes.

Julie Terberg wrote an amazing article on Color Schemes for Presentations
magazine that showed you how to decide on which colors to actually use -
luckily it is available online at:

Creating a Color Scheme by Julie Terberg -
http://snipurl.com/juliecolorschemes

Follow that with reading Echo's detailed article that explains how you can
apply the schemes:

Color Schemes - http://snipurl.com/colorschemes


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[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.

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