I am writing a macro in VBA for excel in which I would like to change the transparency of the lines connecting markers in a series but leave the transparency of the markers in the series the same.
To specify: the chart is a scatter plot. I would like the markers for a series to be opaque/zero transparency and for the lines in the series to be 75% transparent.
I have adjsuted the transparency of the lines by using
myseries.format.line.transparency = 0.75
but this changes the marker transparency as well.
does anyone know of a way I can change the transparency of the two separately? I imagine there is a member/property to do what I want, but I cannot find it.
thanks in advance for any help!
This answer isn’t going to make you very happy.
I’ve looked into this before and the information i’ve gotten is that this simply isn’t a parameter that you can specify through VBA. It looks like you can access marker style, size, background color and foreground color, and that’s about it.
Maybe MS didn’t think anyone would ever want to mess with that.
One thing you could try is applying a custom chart format, but if you have variable numbers and/or orders of series then that may not work.
Something like that, where mychart is already set equal to the chart you want to format.
Again, maybe not of any use to you, best i could think of.