I have Excel 2003 and was able to toggle this on and off. I went to
Options, View and for the Objects selection, I chose HIDE ALL for Objects.
With that setting, I could not save the graph as an Object within the
Worksheet. I started out with the setting at Show All. Try that and see
what happens.

"Ann Scharpf" <Ann wrote in message
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I am using Excel 2000. I have copied an existing file to use as a
template.
One sheet contains a table of data that I want to chart. When I get to
the
last step of the chart wizard, the option is grayed out for saving the
chart
as an object on one of the sheets.

I was able to work around the problem by using the copy sheet command to
copy all the sheets to a new workbook. I cannot figure out what the
original
user could have done to this file to make the "create as object" option
unavailable. I'd appreciate any insight you can give me.

Thanks.