Thank you a lot for this information.

"Andy Pope" wrote:

Thanks for posting the picture.

I can not find anything that controls the diagonal shading effect.

Interesting though I created a surface plot in xl2003. Opened it in xl2007
and the shading effect did not appear.
So I save this as a chart template and was able to apply that to a chart
created in xl2007. Even changing the colours and bands.
But as soon as I applied a built-in design the shading appears and can not
be removed.

Cheers
Andy


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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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"Olivier" wrote in message
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You may see what I mean by 'grid effect' there :

http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backimgrb9.png

And I do not want this effect... How can I remove it?
Thanks.