Comments on: Chart Pattern Fills in Excel 2007

By: Office Excel 2007: Missing your Pattern Fill Feature? | ThinkWing Radio with Mike Honig

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:09:00 +0000

[...] any case, on a site called “Dose of Excel”, I found this page. [...]

By: nakliyat

nakliyat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The good thing is that you can have more than one function per filter but also that you can add you own function to existing filters very easily.

By: Andri

Andri — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:37:00 +0000

thanks John…this what i’m looking for…

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:55:00 +0000

Jim -

"... and they don't allow ADD-INS."

I dislike this draconian, self-defeating policy by IT departments. Is it possible to open an add-in as a regular file in this company? Then you could still use the add-in, without installing it. Which is the only way you'll be able to use the patterns, because I don't expect to see it again as a regular user interface option.

By: Jim Holstein

Jim Holstein — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:59:00 +0000

I consult for the nation's largest insurance company [they don't permit their name to be mentioned] and they don't allow ADD-INS. Does Microsoft's Eric Patterson intend to eventually enable this pattern feature in the base product? Thanks.

By: John Walkenbach

John Walkenbach — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:01:00 +0000

Much better, Andy. I need to start checking your site more often.

By: Andy Pope

Andy Pope — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:19:00 +0000

I have a similar add-in which allows you to specify the foreground and background colours of the pattern fills.
http://www.andypope.info/charts/patternfills.htm

And it will work on shapes as well as charts.