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I cannot control the transparency of the patterns fill in the boxes I make

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    I cannot control the transparency of the patterns fill in the boxes I make

    I cannot control the transparency of the patterns fill in the boxes I make in excel. I made a graph with lines and wanted to fill certain portions in patterns and make it 80% transparent to see the underlying trend lines. I can control the transparency with color fill but cannot do with patterns fill. I need to use strictly patterns fill and control its transparency to see the underlying trend lines in the graphs since the press process only allows black and white with no colors. How can I do this?

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    Re: I cannot control the transparency of the patterns fill in the boxes I make

    you cannot set transparency of patterns. but you can control shades of gray as foreground or background color. that could come close to same result

    other alternatives
    1. use picture or bitmap option. you can set transparency of an inserted picture
    (create the background in paint or create another excel object like textbox and then make screenshot of that and save as picture)

    2. Create a textbox with the size of the graph area give that the pattern then place it under the graph and set the graph area to a fill with white and then control the transparency of the graph to the wanted shade

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    Re: I cannot control the transparency of the patterns fill in the boxes I make

    How are you doing the trend line. For me the trend line appear above the columns.

    Or do you mean grid lines?
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