Maybe you changed the palette in the workbook. Look at Tools, Options,
Color. The Reset button will restore the default palette. Before changing
anything you might want to save the customized palette in another which you
can do from the same dialog.

Chart colours in Series are automatically applied from bottom two rows in
the colour palette.

Regards,
Peter T


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"redford01" wrote in message
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I had just got to grips with the charting options in Exdcel 97 when the
other
day, all my nice charts had changed colour, THey are now all wishy washy
colours and I can't find out how to change the default colour settings to
give me more colourful options. Can anyone help?