How to copy one chart format to others in Excel?

Supposing there are multiple different types of charts in your worksheet, you have formatted one chart to your need, and now you want to apply this chart formatting to other charts. Of course, you can format others manually one by one, but this will waste much time, are there any quick or handy ways for you to copy one chart format to others in Excel?

Copy one chart format to other charts with Paste Special function

Copy one chart format to other charts with creating a template

Copy one chart format to other chart with VBA code

Copy one chart format to other charts with Paste Special function

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Please look at the following screenshot, the first chart has the formatting which you need, and now, you want to apply its formatting to other charts.

This Paste Special function can help you to copy one chart format to other charts with following steps:

1. Select the chart that you want to copy its format to others.

2. Then on the Home tab, click Copy, see screenshot:

3. And then select another chart that you want to reformat, then click Home > Paste > Paste Special, and in the popped out dialog, check Formats under Paste option. See screenshots:

4. Then click OK, and the chart formatting has been applied to this chart, and then repeat this procedure for each chart you want to reformat. At last you will get the following results:

Copy one chart format to other charts with creating a template

You can also save your formatted chart as a chart template, and then change other charts type to your template chart type.

1. Select your needed formatting chart, on the Design tab, click Save As Template, see screenshot:

2. In the Save Chart Template window, specify a name for your template chart, and then click Save. And it will be saved with the rest of the chart types, in a Templates folder, it can be chosen when you create a new chart.

3. After creating your template chart, then you can change other chart types to this template, select the chart which needed to be reformatting and right click, choose Change Chart Type from the context menu, see screenshot:

4. In the Change Chart Type dialog, click Templates from the left pane, and select your created chart template under My Templates option.

5. Then click OK to close this dialog, and the chart's formatting has been copied to this selected chart. See screenshot:

6. Then repeat the above step 3- step5 to copy the format to other charts one by one.

Copy one chart format to other chart with VBA code

With above two methods, you must paste or change the chart's formatting one by one, if there are multiple charts need to be reformatted, the following VBA code can help you apply one chart format to others at once in the current worksheet.

1. Select the chart that you want to apply its format to other charts.

2. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Window.

3. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following macro in the Module Window:

VBA code: Copy one chart format to other chart at once

Sub CopyChartFormats()
'Updateby20140219
Dim Ws As Worksheet
Dim Cht As ChartObject
Dim xChart As Chart
Dim bTitle As Boolean
Dim bXTitle As Boolean
Dim bYTitle As Boolean
Dim sTitle As String
Dim sXTitle As String
Dim sYTitle As String
Dim iSource As Long
Dim iTarget As Long
Dim iTotal As Long
Dim iSeries As Long
Dim vSource As Variant
Dim vTarget As Variant
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Set xChart = Application.ActiveChart
iSource = xChart.SeriesCollection.Count
Set Ws = Application.ActiveSheet
  For Each Cht In Ws.ChartObjects
    If Ws.Name = xChart.Parent.Parent.Name And _
        Cht.Name = xChart.Parent.Name Then
    Else
      With Cht.Chart
       iTarget = .SeriesCollection.Count
        bTitle = .HasTitle
        If bTitle Then
          sTitle = .ChartTitle.Characters.Text
        End If
        If .HasAxis(xlCategory) Then
          bXTitle = .Axes(xlCategory).HasTitle
          If bXTitle Then
            sXTitle = .Axes(xlCategory).AxisTitle.Characters.Text
          End If
        End If
        If .HasAxis(xlValue) Then
          bYTitle = .Axes(xlValue).HasTitle
          If bYTitle Then
            sYTitle = .Axes(xlValue).AxisTitle.Characters.Text
          End If
        End If
        xChart.ChartArea.Copy
        .Paste Type:=xlFormats
        iTotal = .SeriesCollection.Count
        If iTotal = iSource + iTarget Then
          For iSeries = 1 To iTarget
            vSource = Split(.SeriesCollection(iSeries).Formula, ",")
            vTarget = Split(.SeriesCollection(iSeries + iSource).Formula, ",")
            vTarget(UBound(vTarget)) = vSource(UBound(vSource))
            .SeriesCollection(iSeries).Formula = Join(vTarget, ",")
          Next
          For iSeries = iTotal To iTarget + 1 Step -1
            .SeriesCollection(iSeries).Delete
          Next
        End If
        If bXTitle Then
          .Axes(xlCategory).HasTitle = True
          .Axes(xlCategory).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = sXTitle
        End If
        If bYTitle Then
          .Axes(xlValue).HasTitle = True
          .Axes(xlValue).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = sYTitle
        End If
                If bTitle Then
          .HasTitle = True
          .ChartTitle.Characters.Text = sTitle
        End If
      End With
    End If
  Next
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

4. Then press F5 key to run this code, and all other charts in current worksheet are applied with the formatting of the selected chart immediately.

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