Cannot remove "smudge" from chart area

[TheeUnderseer]

Hi All,

A colleague's chart area contains a 'smudge' that he has not been able to remove.

The smudge remains when the fill colour is changed or no-fill and moves with the chart.

Attached is a screen-shot of the chart. The smudge is in the centre of image, between the red and black lines.

I plan to delete the chart containing the smudge and re-create it but wondered if anyone on this forum has experienced/solved a similar problem.

Many thanks for reading my post about this minor aesthetic issue.

 

[RoryA]

Without the workbook, it's all a bit of guesswork, but it looks like a single data point marker to me.

 

[TheeUnderseer]

Hi Rory,

Many thanks for your feedback.

I cracked it! It was a shadow applied to one data series that had size of 1% (rhetorical question: When would you use that feature?!).

Colleague must have been experimenting with the 'shadow' and 'glow' options at some point.

Have a good day.

 

[RoryA]

rhetorical question: When would you use that feature?!

I know it was rhetorical, but: Never. People who use that are the same sort of people that use 3D pie charts...