i am having excel 2000. if you point cursoron the bar and right click you
get <format data series
on the left side click custom and click color andchoose color and ok it see
whether you get what you want.



Father Garrin <Father wrote in message
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I have Excel 2002. I am trying to create a clustered column chart with a
time-scale x-axis. It seems to create the chart, but it limits it to
black
and white, with skinny little columns that you can hardly distinguish. As
soon as I eliminate the dates along the x axis, it turns into technicolor.
But that isn't what I need. Help!