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From: michtrc on 13 May 2008 11:42
All my clients use a lower version of powerpoint. each time i want to edit a
chart, it asks me if i want to convert, convert all or edit existing. is
there a global command i can use to always edit existing, without having to
answer the question on every single chart?
From: Echo S on 13 May 2008 14:32
Yeah, there's a registry key you can change.

Steve Rindsberg posted this awhile back. Sorry, I can't actually find it at
http://www.pptfaq.com right now, or I'd just give you a link directly to it.

> HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/OFFICE/12.0/Common/Charting/MSGraphEnable
>
> If you add this key (DWORD) and set it to 1, the following happens:
>
> PowerPoint won't prompt the to convert existing MSGraph charts when you
> double-click them. It simply treats it as earlier PPT versions normally
> treat
> MSGraph charts.
>
> When you insert a new chart or click the chart icon in a content
> placeholder,
> PowerPoint inserts an MSGraph chart rather than the new-style Excel ones.
>
> PowerPoint won't convert MSGraph charts if the user opens a legacy
> document and
> clicks on OfficeButton, Convert.

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"michtrc" <michtrc(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> All my clients use a lower version of powerpoint. each time i want to
> edit a
> chart, it asks me if i want to convert, convert all or edit existing. is
> there a global command i can use to always edit existing, without having
> to
> answer the question on every single chart?

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