I have Excel 2007. A colleague saw a line chart with vertical lines in the
plot area, and each resulting rectangular area in the plot area had its own
gradient fill. Each vertical rectangle/gradient was identical. He is asking
me if this is do-able in Excel.

I have been looking into plot area gradients in 2007, and so far I haven't
found a way to apply a gradient fill for each major vertical line rectangle
of the plot area.

Chart type is 2D line chart with primary vertical major gridlines. Do I
need to look at a different chart type in order to accomplish this? I can't
believe that the creator would have gone to the trouble of inserting
individual rectangles with gradients into each of the vertical plot
rectangles.

TIA,
Steve