Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Jim Rech — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:08:34 GMT

Nice work, Jon!

(Pun about thinking outside the box omitted)

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Jon Peltier — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:16:42 GMT

So are you saying the chart junk is better in 2007 than in 2003? The shadow under the chart title and the box around it are unnecessary. Rita's favorite gray background also makes it hard to focus on the chart.

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Colin Banfield — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:21 GMT

Yep, the gray background adds no value to the chart because it makes the text harder to read. The gridlines are also distracting. Would recommend a white background and light gray gridlines, if they must be used at all. Lastly, sorting the list from lowest to highest rent would make the comparisons easier.

Then again, the point of the post wasn't about improving the chart, so I apologize for the ramble.

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Excel Chic — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:37:38 GMT

Excel 2007 is shaping up to be an awesome edition. Recently I was fiddling around with something similar to this. Making the cells with a 3d appearance.

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

sam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:26 GMT

How about making Charts Glow is the Dark....So that we can read better .....May be in 2009....

Ofcourse dont bother about increasing the number of chart types...

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Misanthropist — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:53:27 GMT

Thanks for the effort. I'll use your work because I've used the 3D effects a lot.

Apparently several of the above posts don't realize that the original sheet isn't theirs and it's none of their business how it looks.

I didn't see anything by them to resolve the original issue.

re: Shadows on Charts and Cells in Excel 2007

Vadim K — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:13:05 GMT

I have a problem with shadows in Excel 2007 charts. It is serious enough to donwgrade to 2003 and recommend my whole organization to stay away from Office 2007. I do not mean the shadows added intentionally, I mean the accursed black shadow triangles appearing when error bars are added to logarithmic scale charts. On top of that, formatting of error bars in Excel 2007 gone from problematic to worse (example: creation of X-axis error bars by default, which have to be deleted, every time). It was not fixed in SP1, and now I have little hope of it being fixed in MSO 2007 ever. I understand that I am not talking to the right person and in the right place, but maybe you could point me to the right ones?