Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4
Default Area highlight in excel chart

I have data of the following format
X: year/month/day
Y: value
Y2: value2

I want to highlight the area from Y to Y+0.5 for all X, using the Y
scale

How could I do this in Excel 2003 ?

Thank you
Michael

apparently my first post got lost in ???

  #2   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,582
Default Area highlight in excel chart

Could you use something like this:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/XYAreaChart2.html

- Jon
-------
Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
_______


"mkengel" wrote in message
oups.com...
I have data of the following format
X: year/month/day
Y: value
Y2: value2

I want to highlight the area from Y to Y+0.5 for all X, using the Y
scale

How could I do this in Excel 2003 ?

Thank you
Michael

apparently my first post got lost in ???



  #3   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.charting
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4
Default Area highlight in excel chart

On Oct 25, 1:24 am, "Jon Peltier"
wrote:
Could you use something like this:
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/XYAreaChart2.html


Thanks Jon for the link. Actually, I saw this link before but I failed
to get the results, I want. E.g. if I fill between the lines, the
helplines through the chart vanished and also the marked area doesn't
cover the full scale (X-axis), and, and...

When I see what efforts are necessary to make such a simple task, I
think that Excel charts are still stone-age tools (don't know if
competitors are better or worse).
I should be much easier to do such tasks without even using your
clever work-arounds.

I would expect from Excel to be able to treat parts of the charts
differently from others (like the tags of the axes, background, just
to name two) and to set this all from a single window "chart
properties".

Michael





Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Highlight selected area dkallen Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 4 September 12th 07 04:52 PM
how do i change the color of the GUI highlight area? Monkey Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 1 May 31st 07 03:31 AM
Excluding empty/zero values in graph - highlight area in chart scott Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 2 September 11th 06 04:36 AM
How to increase chart area without affecting plot area? [email protected] Charts and Charting in Excel 2 April 21st 06 09:05 PM
How do I highlight all the context area? Le9569 Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 2 March 14th 05 07:29 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:58 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2025 ExcelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Microsoft Excel"