XL97: Nothing Is in Printout of Embedded MS Excel Chart

ID: Q160099

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you print an embedded Microsoft Excel 97 chart from a PowerPoint presentation, nothing may be printed on the page.

This behavior may occur when all of the following conditions are true:

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you click Options on the Tools menu, click the Print tab, and clear the "Print inserted objects at printer resolution" check box.
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You create an embedded Microsoft Excel chart in a PowerPoint presentation.
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You activate the embedded chart.

To work around this problem, use the following steps:

1. If the embedded Microsoft Excel chart is activated, click the PowerPoint

   slide that contains the chart to deactivate it.

2. On the Tools menu, click Options, click the Print tab, and select the

   "Print inserted objects at printer resolution" check box.

3. Click OK.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

For more information about embedding objects, click the Index tab in Microsoft PowerPoint Help, type the following text

   embedded objects, charts

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Add a chart to a presentation" topic.

Additional query words: XL97

Keywords          : kbprint kbchart
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: November 3, 1998