Thanks Tom, I will look ino it.

Bill

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:11:22 -0400, "Tom Ogilvy"
wrote:

Xl8galry.xls stores custom chart formats that come with Microsoft Excel 97.
Xlusrgal.xls stores any custom chart formats that you create. Microsoft
Excel does not create Xlusrgal.xls until you create a custom chart format.

When someone else opens your xls file, their excel looks at their
xlusrgal.xls, not yours.

maybe it would be easier to put in code to do the formatting.