The spectrum of six-times ionized yttrium, Y VII, was photographed with a sliding-spark discharge on 10.7 m normal-and grazing-incidence spectrographs. The region of observation was 157-824 Å. The observations extend the known configurations 4s 2 4p 3 , 4s4p 4 , 4p 5 , 4s 2 4p 2 5s, 4s 2 4p 2 6s to the nearly complete 4s 2 4p 2 4d configuration. Our results for 4s 2 4p 2 4d significantly revise results of Rahimullah et al (1978 Phys. Scr. 18 96); Ateqad et al (1984 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys. 17 4617). A total of 168 lines and 56 energy levels are now known for this ion. The observed configurations were interpreted with Hartree-Fock calculations and least-squares fits of the energy parameters to the observed levels. Transition probabilities for all classified lines were calculated with the fitted parameters.