Comments on: Using Colors in Excel Charts

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:09:14 +0000

Alan - Use the technique in Simple Conditional Charts. Your formulas are whatever you need to plot just the point in question in the second series.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:52:01 +0000

Hello Jon…………was wondering if you have ever come across a way to color a point or bar on a chart and have that color stay with the point as its source data table is sorted from low to hi or hi to low. Any input would be most appreciated !!

Thanks
Alan

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:23:06 +0000

Pam -

The Excel 2007 and 2010 color system is vastly different than that for Excel 97-2003. I don’t even really understand it yet.

My colleague Tony Jollans has written two articles about using colors in Word 2007, and the information is completely relevant to Excel 2007:

http://proofficedev.org/blog/2007/08/colours-in-word-2007-part-1/
http://proofficedev.org/blog/2007/10/colours-in-word-2007-part-2/

By: Pam Dodge

Pam Dodge — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:05:20 +0000

I amusing 2010 and do not find the Options/ Color screen as shown for 2003 above. I want to set font color for any time I add data. Please assist.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:47:15 +0000

Jon.
Thanks very much for the very clever method in your Monday, November 29, 2010, 9:28 am comment. I am very grateful that you took time out to help me with my problem. The solution works like a gem and has instantly given me a much more powerful command of VB in Excel.

Very much appreciated.
Mike

By: wynand

wynand — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:35:19 +0000

Mike,

This might help, allthough probably not entirely what you’re looking for:

http://www.contextures.com/xlcomments02.html