Fill patterns for black and white graphs

[Urselh]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I haven't found an answer to this yet... Is there ANY way to get the basic fill patterns (diagonal lines etc.) into Excel 2008 so that you can create graphs in black and white?

Is this a feature that will be added soon? Otherwise I will have to go back to Excel 2004 because most of the manuscripts we write will end up black and white.

Thanks.

 

[bartman1]

I have taken the step of creating a full page of lines in Illustrator, saving them as a *.png, then putting the document in the Excel program as follows: Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Media/Clip Art.

I have horizontal and vertical lines which work as chart fill (using the insert picture option for fill), but am still trying to debug the diagonal lines.

It appears to work OK if you fill an entire page with lines in illustrator, spaced as you want them, with a white background (put a square with no border and white fill behind the lines, otherwise your lines will be transparent - although you may want transparent lines, so experiment).