Rotated/Colored Text Not Displayed Correctly in Pasted Chart

• Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0, 5.0c

SYMPTOMS

If you copy a chart in Microsoft Excel that contains rotated or colored text and paste it to a document in another Microsoft Windows application, one or more of the following symptoms occur:

Microsoft Excel version 5.0 and 5.0c Chart

- Colored text is displayed in black

Microsoft Excel versions 4.0 and 4.0a Chart

• Rotated unattached text is not displayed on the chart
• Colored text is displayed in black
• Rotated axis text does not appear to be rotated

CAUSE

This behavior occurs when you paste a Microsoft Excel version 5.0 chart as a picture, or when you paste or link a Microsoft Excel version 4.0 chart as a Microsoft Excel Chart object or picture.

NOTE: This problem does not occur in later versions of Microsoft Excel.

WORKAROUNDS

Note that this behavior only affects the appearance of the chart in the application to which you pasted the chart. When you print the chart, correct orientation of the chart text is maintained.

To avoid the incorrect display of text color on a Microsoft Excel version 5.0 chart, link the Microsoft Excel chart as a Picture. Note that you can also paste or link the chart as a bitmap or chart object.

To avoid the incorrect display of text color or rotation on a Microsoft Excel version 4.0 chart, paste or link the Microsoft Excel chart as a bitmap. You can do this by choosing Paste Special from the Edit menu in the application to which you are pasting the chart, and then selecting Bitmap from the As list.

MORE INFORMATION

The following is a list of symptoms that occur in different applications after you paste a chart from Microsoft Excel that contains colored and rotated text.

Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0, 6.0a

Microsoft Excel 5.0 Chart

   Picture (paste)              - Colored text is displayed in black

   Chart object (paste or link) - The entire chart appears in black and
   Picture (paste or link)        white
                                - Unattached rotated text is not displayed
                                  or appears cut off
                                - Rotated text is not rotated

Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0

Microsoft Excel 5.0 Chart

   Chart object (paste) - Colored text is displayed in black
   Picture (paste)

   Chart object (paste) - The entire chart appears in black and white
   Chart object (link)  - Unattached rotated text is not displayed
   Picture (paste)        or appears cut off
                        - Rotated text is not rotated

Microsoft Write

Microsoft Excel 5.0 Chart

   Chart object (paste) - Colored text is displayed in black
   Picture (paste)

   Chart object (paste) - The entire chart appears in black and white
   Picture (paste)      - Unattached rotated text is not displayed
                          or appears cut off
                        - Rotated text is not rotated

   Chart object (link) - Colored text appears in color if it is not rotated
   Picture (link)      - Rotated colored text is displayed in black

REFERENCES

For more information about Copying Data From Microsoft Excel To Another Application, choose the Search button in Help and type:

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