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XL97: Cannot Change Fill Color for Walls or Floor on 3-D Chart

Article ID: 175699

Article Last Modified on 10/19/2000

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q175699

SYMPTOMS

If you click the Fill Color toolbar button to change the fill color on the walls or floor of a three-dimensional (3-D) chart in Microsoft Excel, the fill color may not change.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if all of the following conditions are true:

You create a 3-D chart.

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You paste object onto the walls or floor of the chart.

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You click the Fill Color toolbar button on the Formatting toolbar to change the fill color of the walls or floor with the object.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

Select the walls (or floor) of the chart.
On the Format menu, click Selected Walls (or Selected Floor).
On the Patterns tab of the Format Walls (or Format Floor) dialog box, click a color under Area, and then click OK.

NOTE: After you change the fill color by using these steps, the object on the walls (or floor) no longer is visible. You must paste the object onto the walls (or floor) again.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For more information about pasting objects onto a 3-D chart, click the Index tab in Microsoft Excel Help, type the following text

   3-d charts, walls and floor

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

Additional query words: XL97

Keywords: kbbug kbchart KB175699