Comments on: Highlight Certain Time Periods in a Chart

By: Imran

Imran — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:30:16 +0000

Hi Jon,

The problem what i’m facing is that when I use the “Highlight certain time period in a chart” graph with data tables, i’m getting all the legends including the legends of the highlighted weekends.(where i am using a series with secondary axis for highlighting weekends in timeline)

I need something where we can remove the specific Series in the data table.
Any idea on this?

By: David

David — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:09:04 +0000

To follow up your response to having shading for weekends where the primary data is a column chart…what if the primary data is in stacked columns? I have 3 series that make up each of my columns. I have successfully created 6 series (3 of which are for weekends and 3 for weekdays), but it gets really ugly when I try to use different colors for the weekend stacked columns. Do you have any suggestions for creating a good workaround? I thought about just using a different color for the weekend x-axis labels but I can’t figure out how to do this. Thanks!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:53:04 +0000

Amir - Transparency didn't become an actual option in charts until 2007, despite the appearance of the grayed out checkbox. John Walkenbach shows a clever workaround in Spreadsheet Page Excel Tips: Creating A Transparent Chart Series.

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:44:29 +0000

thank you for this post. I used the knowledge to create a nice looking chart with varied width columns to indicate certain time periods. However I can’t get the fill color of the new column series to be semi-transparent (this is important because I have to show the grid). any idea why ?

Thank you
Amir

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:10:47 +0000

John,

Any ideas on how to add timed highlights to your beautifull Gantt chart (http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/GanttChart.html )?

I would like to differ the time our business is open from time it is closed, so some hours on a given day a grey background, and some a white background.

Is that a clear question ;o) ??

Regards Marcel

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:40:33 +0000

He he. It’s not what you know, it’s what you can learn fast!