On the Tools menu, choose Options, click on the View tab, and under Objects, select
Show All, not Show Placeholders.

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Elshpen wrote:

Excel 2003, XP system - No matter what I do the chart icon is grayed out. I
tried detect and repair, but this did not fix the problem. I am up to date
on my Office 2003 updates. How can I fix this and get the chart to work?