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Be able to re-color INDIVIDUAL grid lines in excel charts
I spent a great deal of time today trying to mess with this. I was using a
three variable 3D bar chart for a report. I needed to super-impose a department average and a company target. This would have been simple if I could have changed the color of the gridlines representing these two values. The trendline option, if it would have worked, stayed dimmed no matter what I tried to do. Thanks for any input. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...excel.charting |
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John -
Gridlines can't be individually formatted. You can fake gridlines by adding series or error bars: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/AddLine.html http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...Gridlines.html This won't work in a 3D chart, because you can't make a 3D combination chart. Instead of a 3D bar or column chart, which look great from a marketing standpoint but are notoriously difficult to interpret, couldn't you make a clustered bar or column chart? These can be combined with scatter chart series for the gridlines. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services Tutorials and Custom Solutions http://PeltierTech.com/ _______ John Canino wrote: I spent a great deal of time today trying to mess with this. I was using a three variable 3D bar chart for a report. I needed to super-impose a department average and a company target. This would have been simple if I could have changed the color of the gridlines representing these two values. The trendline option, if it would have worked, stayed dimmed no matter what I tried to do. Thanks for any input. |
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