I've tried that, it's still a white background and the data in the back can't
show through ...

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

Try setting the chart and plot areas to having no fill. This can be
found on the patterns tab of the format dialog.

Cheers
Andy

Amanda wrote:
I've figured out how to overlay charts, but can't figure out how to make my
colored charts transparent so that the data from both charts can be read
(like when using an overhead projector and transparencies). I also download
some macro from another question posted on here, thinking it would help, but
it didn't.

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