This problem occurs if you paste the whole Excel 2003 worksheet that contains the chart into Word 2003.
This problem occurs because the automatic font that is applied to text in the text box does not appear when you paste the worksheet that contains the chart into Word. The text is still in the text box, but you must apply a different font color to make it appear. In this case, the import code incorrectly interprets the background color of the text box as a very dark color. As a result, the auto white feature for text boxes that is included in Word 2003 changes the font color for text in that text box to a white color. The text font color is now the same as the background color of the text box. This problem only occurs when you use the default pasting format (HTML) from Excel 2003 to Word 2003.