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WesJD

Copper Contributor

May 12, 2020

Excel changes multiple series colors at once

I have a simple X-Y chart with five series of markers, no lines. When I change the color of the markers on Series 5, Series 1 also changes to the same color, and when I change Series 1 back to the co...

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AshaKantaSharma

Iron Contributor

May 14, 2020

WesJD https://support.office.com/en-us/article/vary-the-colors-of-same-series-data-markers-in-a-chart-395f0c1c-ea89-4fd9-9c5e-fed830e45851

WesJD
Copper Contributor
May 16, 2020
AshaKantaSharma, thank you for responding but that link does not address my problem. I'm not trying to change only one or two points, I'm changing the color of the full series, and a different series is changing at the same time. I believe it's a bug in Excel.
- bhushan_z
  Iron Contributor
  May 16, 2020
  WesJD can u pls share the file?
  - WesJD
    Copper Contributor
    May 16, 2020
    bhushan_z Today I can't reproduce the problem. I think it originated after I copied a chart within a sheet; the original chart behaved normally, but the copy had the behavior I described. I'll watch for it to happen again and post the file if it does. Thanks for your interest!