Remarks

Use the Fill property to return a ChartFillFormat object.

Example
The following example sets the foreground color, background color, and gradient for the chart area fill on chart one.

Visual Basic for Applications 
With Charts(1).ChartArea.Fill .Visible = True .ForeColor.SchemeColor = 15 .BackColor.SchemeColor = 17 .TwoColorGradient Style:=msoGradientHorizontal, Variant:=1 End With