Comments on: Highlight a Series with a Click or a Mouse Over

By: James

James — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:48:31 +0000

Hi Jon,

Thanks a lot for your answer.

In addition to the link you have indicated, I just found an article of yours, dealing with Chart Events, which is extremely useful :

http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=221

Cheers

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:35:33 +0000

James - This is possible, but requires some code. This was covered in Better Chart Tooltips with Microsoft Excel 2010 in the Clearly and Simply blog.

By: James

James — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:00:53 +0000

Hi Jon,

Is there a way to turn off Excel’s standard behavior of tip ? (tiny yellow box …)

Could the MouseOver event be a solution for a much cleaner substitute ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:59:54 +0000

Michael -

So the chart has “normal formatting”, then when it’s activated, go to the one highlighted series and the rest unhighlighted?

By: Michael Pierce

Michael Pierce — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:58:36 +0000

Thank you for this example; looks like I’m going to learn a few things from this.

One suggestion: It would be good to capture the chart’s existing formatting (series colors, etc.) when the chart is activated and restore that formatting when the chart is deactivated.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:12:11 +0000

This is a great visual tool! Thanks Jon.