They still print with a white background.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Hi,

What happens if you set the data labels area colour to None rather than
the colour of the plot area?

Cheers
Andy

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

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