It is off. I even selected "none" for colour instead of gray, as someone
suggested. It shows gray on the screen, but in print preview the data labels
are with a white background and they print white.

"David McRitchie" wrote:

Turn off B&W option in File, Page Setup, Sheets -- if it is on.

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"Connie Martin" wrote in message ...
Oops! Should've posted this in Excel Charts. I will do so now.

"Connie Martin" wrote:

Excel 2000: The data labels are showing with a white background on a gray
plot area. I have formatted the data label background to the same colour of
gray but it remains white when I print the chart. I'm obviously doing
something wrong. Any suggesions? Connie