Picture options grayed out

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Ray Knight

In Excel 2002, Office XP, when I insert a picture for the
background of a chart, it is squeezed and stretched in
the chart (though not in the preview). The picture
options are grayed out. I tried it with both JPEG and
bitmap graphics with the same problem.

Also, in the gradient fill, the transparency sliders are
inoperative.

Any ideas how to activate these features?

Ray
 
Hmm.

No doubt you're right, Debra. However, in checking
furthre, I find in the Excel Help file the following
instructions:

"Use a picture in a chart
Most charts or chart items


To specify a picture, click Select Picture.
In the Look in box, click the drive, folder, or Internet
location that contains the picture, and then double-click
the picture you want.
On the Picture tab, select the options you want."


According to that, the options should be available to
change in a chart. Is that an error in the Help file?

Ray
 
Step 1 of the instructions say:
Click the data markers in column, bar, area, bubble, 3-D line, and
filled radar charts, the chart area, the plot area, or the legend in 2-D
and 3-D charts, or the 3-D walls or floor that you want to use a picture
for.

Some of the options are available for some chart objects. For example,
if you add a picture to a data marker in a column chart, the Format
options are available. If you add a picture to a data marker in a 3D
column chart, the Format and Apply to options are available.

But for the chart area (background), which is where you wanted your
picture, no options are available.
 
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