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The separators that are displayed in chart labels do not reflect changes that are made in the "Excel Options" dialog box in Office Excel 2007

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Symptoms

You change the decimal separator or the thousand separator in the Excel Options dialog box in Microsoft Office Excel 2007. For example, you use a comma (,) as the decimal separator and you use a period (.) as the thousand separator. In this case, the separators that are displayed in chart labels do not reflect this change.

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Resolution

To fix this problem, apply the following update:
978388 Description of the Office Excel 2007 hotfix package (Excel-x-none.msp, Graph-x-none.msp, Oart-x-none.msp, Oartconv-x-none.msp, Xlconv-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010
Then, restart Office Excel 2007. Additionally, you must restart Office Excel 2007 every time that you change the custom separators.

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Status

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

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Keywords: KB980256, kbprb, kbsurveynew, kbqfe, kbexpertiseinter

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Article Info
Article ID : 980256
Revision : 1
Created on : 3/23/2010
Published on : 3/23/2010
Exists online : False
Views : 259