When a chart is inserted in a document, generated by SpreadProcessing or WordsProcessing, the chart seems to lack any bars. The reason is that some theme information is missing, which effectively makes shapes take their default color, which is transparent. The same applies for shapes inserted in any Document Processing-generated OOXML documents - docx, xlsx.

Workaround: (applicable for Excel) Manually change the theme for the document in MS Excel:
- Choose Page Layout -> Themes -> Themes dropdown -> Office.