XL98: Unable to Create a Transparent Chart Area
Article ID: 179038
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q179038
SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, if you format the chart area of a
chart with a fill pattern of None, the chart appears to be transparent;
however, you cannot select the cells behind the chart.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs when the following conditions are met:
- You hold down the CONTROL key, click the chart area of a chart,
and click Format Chart Area on the shortcut menu that appears.
(Or select the chart area and then click Format Chart Area tool
on the Chart toolbar).
-and-
- You click the Patterns tab, and then click None under Area.
Formatting the chart area with no fill pattern provides the illusion that
the chart area is transparent.
STATUS
The behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98.
MORE INFORMATION
This behavior differs from behavior in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel.
In earlier versions, if you format the chart area of an embedded chart
with no fill pattern, you can access the cells behind the object by
clicking them.
Additional query words: XL98
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