Chart Series Transparency

Hi
Has anyone found a work around for getting the series of a graph to be transparent?
I have a stacked graph that I need the 1st series to be transparent (all of the other series to be solid color). I have only been able to change the series to white but then you still see the border and its spoils the effect of the graph.
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the background to transparent for just 1 of the series of a graph?
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Kind Regards
Wes

I found a walk around to make a series to be transparent. In Xcelsius, if the series values are blank, the series will show like transparency. Then we can use IF function and a check box to implement this walk around:
1) Use check box to insert value(0 or1) to a trigger cell, say A1;
2) If a series range is B1:B3;
3) Set B1=IF(A1=1,"",val1), B2=IF(A1=1,"",val2), B3=IF(A1=1,"",val3);
Then at runtime, select check box will make series value to blank and the series will show like transparency.
But this walk around has two shortcut:
1) It's not proper if the series data is dynamically inserted.
2) Blank series show as transparency, but legend still remains on canvas. If needed, you can disabled the legeng in propertysheet.
Hope this can help!

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