Select the chart, go to Chart menu Chart Type, click on the Custom Types
tab, select User-Defined, then click on the type you want to use for the
existing chart.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Ralph Bentley" <Ralph wrote in message
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Formatting charts in Excel. Office 2003 (11.xx) SP2 Not clear if there is
a
way to impose a template on an existing Excel file, or if templates are
used
to start ne files only.