ID: Q115795
5.00 5.00c 7.00 7.00a WINDOWS kbprint
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In Microsoft Excel if you send a chart or other graphic image to a plotter, you may experience either of the following problems:
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This problem may occur if the lines in the chart are using the default weight. Although the default weight prints well on other types of printers, it may not print correctly (or at all) on plotters.
Computer Appears to Hang and
This problem may occur if your chart contains "wide" lines or lines that are broken (dashed lines, and so on). If a line is too wide or is broken, it may be plotted as a filled polygon rather than as a line. However, it may take a very long time for Microsoft Excel to generate a print job that contains filled polygons: by the same token, because a plotter can only generate lines, it may take a very long time for the plotter to print the job once it has been generated.
For this reason, you should avoid using "wide" and/or broken lines when the output device is a plotter. Follow the steps below to make sure that your chart does not contain any "wide" and/or broken lines.
To work around these problems, do the following for each line contained in your chart:
1. Select the line.
2. From the Format menu, choose Selected Data Series.
3. Select the Patterns tab.
4. Under Line, select the first weight in the Weight box. Select the first
style in the Style box.
Once you have completed these steps for each line contained in your chart, you should be able to plot the chart.
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Version : 5.00 5.00c 7.00 7.00a
Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: March 29, 1997