title: How can I ungroup chart components in PowerPoint 2007 (charts imported from Excel)?
body: <p>Now this is being discussed a lot online and there seems to be no concrete answer as yet.</p>
  
  <p>In Powerpoint 2007, when I import a graph created in excel. (I have tried all types of paste options), I cannot ungroup the graph components beyond a certain level. </p>
  
  <p>For example, I can ungroup the bars from the axes, but I cannot ungroup the bars individually in a bar chart. This was possible in Office 2003. </p>
  
  <p>There are a lot of work arounds suggested like creating the graph in Powerpoint etc. Is there an official Microsoft response on this? 
  here:
  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3770#overview" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3770#overview</a></p>
  
  <p>In SP1 update for Office 2007, the description of changes mentions a similar fix:
  <em>"When you try to manually ungroup an imported picture through the user interface of PowerPoint 2007, you may receive the following informational message: 
  This is an imported picture, not a group. Do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Office drawing object? 
  If you click Yes, the picture will be converted to a drawing object. 
  When you try to programmatically ungroup the imported picture by selecting the picture and using the ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Ungroup method in the Visual Basic Editor, you may receive the error message: 
  Run-time error '-2147024891 (80070005)': This member can only be accesses for a group. "</em></p>
  
  <p>Has anyone successfully fixed this in Office 2007?</p>