Anything in the clipboard can be pasted onto a chart
Clicking on the coins, copy (ctrl/c), click on a series, Home/paste (or ctrl/v):
Right-click on the series, use Format Data Series:
Click these options: [Excel 2003:Patterns tab|Fill Effects]
There are 3 format options:
- Stretch (default)
- Stack
- Stack and scale to
If we select Stack, we see:
If we select Stack and scale, we can enter a number into the Unit/Picture box. Again, this is something you can experiment with.
You also may have noticed these options in this dialog:
- Gradient fill
- Picture or texture fill
- And others
Here's the gradient option selected and the Preset colors dropdown:
The new chart:
On the picture tab there was a button to select a picture−you can use any picture you have on your computer! You can experiment with the other tabs as well.