BackColor Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Returns a ChartColorFormat object that represents the specified fill background color. Read-only ChartColorFormat object.

expression.BackColor

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

ShowBackColor property as it applies to the FillFormat and LineFormat objects.

Returns a ColorFormat object that represents the specified fill background color. Read/write ColorFormat object.

expression.BackColor

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Example

This example sets the foreground color, background color, and gradient for the chart area fill on chart one.

With Charts(1).ChartArea.Fill
    .Visible = True
    .ForeColor.SchemeColor = 15
    .BackColor.SchemeColor = 17
    .TwoColorGradient msoGradientHorizontal, 1
End With