An Excel chart object is not updated in a PowerPoint presentation when the chart object is opened in Excel 2003

Consider the following scenario. A Microsoft Excel chart object is in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. This presentation is on a computer on which Microsoft Office Excel 2003 is installed. You open the chart object, you change the chart data, and then you save these changes. Then, you return to the PowerPoint presentation. In this scenario, the Excel chart object is not updated.

This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:

• The QFE_ONTARIO registry DWORD value is enabled. This value is described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  300523  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300523/ ) Embedded Excel worksheets shrink when you edit them in PowerPoint 2000
• To open the chart object to change the chart data, you right-click the Excel chart and then point to Chart Object. Then, you click Open.

Note This problem does not occur if you use either of the following methods to open the chart object to change the chart data:

• You double-click the Excel chart.
• You right-click the Excel chart and then point to Chart Object. Then, you click Edit.

This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information

This problem is corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3. To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Excel 2003 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package that is dated August 21, 2006. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3.