I can't remove the Chart Area dotted lines around my charts.

[JayDeVo]

I have 2 computers and work on an excel file on each. However, one has excel
2003 and the other has excel 2007. When I work on the file in 2007 and then
try to view it in 2003, all the charts in the file get displayed with a
dotted line around the outside and on the bottom right it says "Chart Area".
I need to remove the dotted line and the Chart Area from being displayed...

 

[Jon Peltier]

I can't reproduce your problem. What kind of charts are these? Embedded or
standalone chart sheets? What type?

- Jon

 

[JayDeVo]

They're stand alone chart sheets. I move the file from one laptop to the
other. The file has about 50 standalone charts and a whole bunch of data.
Each chart had this show up. I just found to remove them - I click on the
dotted line and modify the chart area by changing the line color to white.
But this is just a short term fix since the line is still there, just white.

 

[Jon Peltier]

The line is probably the chart area border. You can format the chart area to
have no border at all. I don't know why you had the dotted line border in
the first place. When I tried it in 2007, I got a solid border.

- Jon