If you keep using the approaches that work in Office 2003 & earlier, that
is, you create the chart in Excel, then insert it into PowerPoint/Word as an
Excel chart object, the result is an OLE object which VBA can manipulate.

That provides some relief, but still leaves us out in the cold when presented
with already-created presentations (as I suspect Bengt is forced to work with).

Can you think of any way of converting an existing chart object to a file that
can be reinserted as you describe?

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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