transparent background

[Pierre]

I graph altitude against distance (line) on treks. I use as a fill picture
the exported file from a GPS tool. Looks OK on screen, but I want to send it
to a photo lab for printing on true photo paper.
* there is no way (?) to export this Excel view to a jpg file as would on
PPT
* if I cut and paste into PPT then I can save the slide as a jpg file but
there is a dreadful loss on resolution.

Of all the tricks I have tried the best would be to make the background of
the graph transparent and mix it with the GPS export picture in Photoshop.
Unfortunately even if the graph appears transparent in Excel (i.e. one sees
the worksheet line behind it), when copy/paste it comes with a white,
untransparent background when it arrives in Photoshop. In my version of
Photoshop I do not know how to remplace white pixels by "nothing". Having
tried everything I know, is there a way to obtain an Excel graph which
background is really transparent when ported across applications?

Thanks

Pierre

 

[Bernard Liengme]

I made a chart and formatted both the Chart Area and the Plot Area to have
Pattern None
Its was transparent ( I could see the worksheet gridlines through it) -
except when it was selected
I click on chart and used copy; open PowerPoint and made a blank slide with
blue background; then copied chart.
The background shows through the chart - it is transparent
Hope this helps

Bon jour!

 

[Pierre]

Thanks Bernard, it helped
Pierre

I made a chart and formatted both the Chart Area and the Plot Area to have
Pattern None
Its was transparent ( I could see the worksheet gridlines through it) -
except when it was selected
I click on chart and used copy; open PowerPoint and made a blank slide with
blue background; then copied chart.
The background shows through the chart - it is transparent
Hope this helps

Bon jour!

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Bernard Liengme
www.stfx.ca/people/bliengme
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