MarkerBackgroundColorIndex Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Returns or sets the marker background color as an index into the current color palette, or as one of the following XlColorIndex constants: xlColorIndexAutomatic or xlColorIndexNone. Applies only to line, scatter, and radar charts. Read/write Long.

Remarks

The following illustration shows the color-index values in the default color palette.

Color index values in default color palette

Example

This example sets the marker background and foreground colors for the second point in series one in Chart1.

With Charts("Chart1").SeriesCollection(1).Points(2)
    .MarkerBackgroundColorIndex = 4    'green
    .MarkerForegroundColorIndex = 3    'red
End With