PlotArea and GradientAngle

[AgentSmith]

I have a chart which has a gradient fill in the Plot Area. For the chart to look right, users must adjust the gradient stop positions and angle of the gradient by eye. To help them I'm providing a couple of controls. The stop positions are easy enough to work with in VBA but I can't see how to work with the angle of the gradient. Individual series have a GradientAngle property (series.Format.Fill.GradientAngle) but the PlotArea.Format.Fill object does not.

Any suggestions how I can do something equivalent?

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

The GradientAngle property is a member of the FillFormat object which is returned by the Fill property. So this worked for me in Excel 2010:

MsgBox ActiveChart.PlotArea.Format.Fill.GradientAngle

 

[AgentSmith]

I'm using Excel 2007 (no choice) and that doesn't work. I guess it must have been left out in the 2007 version.

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Yes the property was introduced in Excel 2010. I'm surprised that this works for you:

Series.Format.Fill.GradientAngle

 

[AgentSmith]

Actually no it doesn't. (TBH I didn't test it because it wasn't what I wanted!)

I think I'm just going to leave it for the user to do via the conventional route. Thanks for the quick replies though