You need to select the Chart Area (what you call the, "grey areas around the
chart") and format that.

There are 2 separate, "parts" to a chart:-

1. The Plot Area (which you seem to have formatted OK) and the

2. Chart Area.

You need to select each of them to format them.

If my comments have helped please hit Yes.

Thanks.



"Maj_USA_Ret" wrote:

Need steps to change the color or backgound of the worksheet that is a chart.
Have multiple tabs in workbook that are just the charts. Only option for
background is to use Format-Sheet-Background. That changes background of
chart, but not the grey areas around the chart on the chart tab.