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Fredrik E. Nilsen Fredrik E. Nilsen is offline
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Default Colours in user-defined charts

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:16:01 -0800, ShaneDevenshire
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Hi Fredrik,

To the best of my knowledge you can only apply colors from the current
workbook's color pallete and the color is referenced not by its color but by
its position.

If you use my suggestion of the XLA macro you can put the XLA on a server
and tell each user how to attach it. Once attached all they will need to do
in the future is press the shortcut key whenever they open an old file with
chart which they want to have updated to the new color scheme. It's a one
time process for each file, not each chart. If you need to know how to make
the file an xla and attach it, let me know.


Thanks again Shane. I have already made the XLA and made a toolbar
with all the user-defined charts, it works like a charm but with the
limitations mentioned in you earlier post.

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Fredrik E. Nilsen