If you select the chart before clicking on the drawing tool, the drawn
objects will be encompassed in the chart, so you will not need to group them
with the chart.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com/
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"MarkN" wrote in message
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Hello,

I use Office 2000 and quite frequently copy charts from Excel into Word.
Many of these charts include text boxes and arrows etc. that fall outside
the
border of the chart object. Is there a straight forward way of copying the
chart and the additional drawn objects. At the moment I am grouping the
objects prior to copying.
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Thanks in advance,
MarkN