>Cetin,
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>Thanks very much. Moving those two lines into the code that works with the ActiveChart worked. By doing a little experimenting I found that putting the 2 new lines before the
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>.ChartArea.Font.Bold = .T.
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>line did not work; putting the 2 new lines after the above line did work. Very strange. Any idea why?
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>Thanks again for your help.
>Stan

Not exactly but a guess. You're setting the fontsize and then setting the font to bold from a higher level (ChartArea). Probably it's overwriting the previous setting. You might see if that's the case by inserting a wait state between the lines (excel visible) :

wait window 'Font setting to bold' timeout 3
...Font.Bold= .t.

Cetin