Microsoft KB Archive/139666

= Error If MarkerBackgroundColorIndex Property Incorrectly Set =

Article ID: 139666

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 95a
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0c
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0a for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q139666



SYMPTOMS
In Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, if the MarkerBackgroundColorIndex or the MarkerForegroundColorIndex property of a line chart is set to xlNone, you may receive the following error message:

Run-Time error '1005'

Unable to set the MarkerBackgroundColorIndex property of the Legend Key Class.



WORKAROUND
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Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro _

("PATTERNS(1,1,25,2,0,1,1,57,FALSE,FALSE)")



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows and Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.



MORE INFORMATION
The MarkerBackgroundColorIndex property returns or sets the marker background color as an index into the current color palette (a value from one to 56). This property works for line, scatter, and radar charts only.

