I have been following Jon Peltier's wonderful tip on creating custom
markers for Excel,

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...omMarkers.html

and I was all ready to import the finished product to Powerpoint, when I
discovered that PowerPoint 97 (and Word 97) cannot handle the change
from basic to custom markers. The series that have been customized are
misaligned in the other applications! Does anyone know how I can recover
from this awful disappointment?

Now, there is a "solution", which is to paste as a bitmap. The thing is,
I was really hoping to get the improved picture quality that comes from
pasting as a vector graphic, then importing out of PP and into a
photo-manipulation program at much better resolution than Excel achieves
alone. So my problem boils down to:

1) Nothing except Word and PowerPoint seems to accept Excel charts as
vector graphics

2) Word and PowerPoint don't display the vector graphics properly when
the chart markers are custom pictures (either bitmap or MS's own
AutoShape system)

If you're interested in reproducing this problem, I have a demo file at

http://www.branta.demon.co.uk/demo.xls

if you copy and paste or paste-link the chart to Word or PP, you see how
the smiley faces fall off the x-axis instead of lining up with it as
they should. This is a very minor misalignment compared to some of the
grosser ones I've managed to produce. Notice that if you clear the
custom formatting and get back to the standard marker, the chart
displays properly.

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