My only excuse is my desperate need to play with new toys (ie-snipping tool)
- but you can open an existing chart and choose Save as Template even easier
than taking pictures. Then next time you need a chart that
uses patterns, you can create it using your template by selecting Other
charts, all chart types, templates, and choose your template.

"Andy" wrote:

In Excel/Office 2007, is there a way to fill "column" or bar chart bars with
the traditional patterns (e.g. brick, stripes, dots...)?

The new "textures" are unsuitable for documents that need to be photocopied
and hence are unsuitable for creating documents for publication in technical
journals.

Andy