Excel 2007 Posts 19. Multi-Level Category Labels I am making a Gantt chart in Excell, and I need to have a few different fields included in the axis labels. I first tried to use the Multi-Level Category Labels, but apparently there is no way to make the text to align horizontally.
63 comments We all know that Chart Data Labels help us highlight important data points. When you “add data labels” to a chart series, excel can show either “category”, “series” or “data point values” as data labels.
But what if you want to have a data label that is altogether different, like this: You can change data labels and point them to different cells using this little trick. First add data labels to the chart (Layout Ribbon Data Labels). Define the new data label values in a bunch of cells, like this:.
Now, click on any data label. This will select “all” data labels. Now click once again. At this point excel will select only one data label. Go to Formula bar, press = and point to the cell where the data label for that chart data point is defined.
Repeat the process for all other data labels, one after another. See the screencast.
Points to note:. This approach works for one data label at a time.
So if you have a large chart, you are in for a lot of clicks and manic mouse maneuvering. That brings us to Rob Bovey’s. This free tool can automate the whole custom chart labeling for you. If you want more formatting options, consider adding text boxes and point them to cells instead. See the post. Share your Chart Formatting Tricks: What are your favorite chart formatting tricks? My favorite tricks are using text boxes to add rich formatting to charts and messing with fonts and colors.
What about you? Recently in Charting:. So, now that there are custom data labels, is there any way to change the text justification? All I ever see is centered text but I would like to have mine left justified. Whatever the formatting is in the linked cell doesn't get reflected in the chart. In your example it works OK since there is a number (short length) and then a percent change (longer length).
The centering looks OK there. I am working on a time line and would like the labels in more of a list format rather than centered. Hi, Great info!! I want to know if it possible to hide a specific data label except when the cursor is in the data. For instance, I have a lot of wells plotted in a XY chart with a map as a background, the x and y are the coordinates of each well.
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However, when I want to know a specific well in the chart is so hard to find it, I need to check the coordinates in the chart and then find to which well correspond those coordinates. If I put all the well label the chart looks messy. What do you recommend me?? Thank you in advance.
To clarify, everything works perfect on my computer. And all the cells witch the data labels refers to contains data and there in the same workbook as the chart. Just on a different sheet. Then I make a copy of the file, put it on a flash drive and even tjen, when I open the file from the flash drive on the same computer everything works perfect. But when I put my flash drive in another computer (I've tried several) the data labels doesn't refesh! All cells looks the same.
The chart works just fine. Text box's within the chart aswell. Just not the data labels. And I have somewhere between 150 and 200 of hem. I don't want to update all of the manually everytime I move the file. One problem I have found - I have a 10 bar chart with the 10 bars individually linked to labels that sit in a grid alongside the source data.
If I decide to hide or group together rows, the labels go out of sync. For example, If I group row 5 the charge removes the bar for that set of data but the label that was linking to bar 5 is now assigned to the new 5th bar, which was actually my 6th row of data. Bars 7, 8, 9 and 10 are also now showing the wrong labels.
I don't know of a solution, but in my case the labels were numeric values so I just changed to a stacked bar chart and added a clear stack above the data with the values plotted as data. First I realise that this post is not an exact follow-on from the main topic, but now I think what I am asking for is another type of custom labels, and this thread is as close as I can find, so here goes. Can I request some help with charts? I Have 4 columns of data to plot. Sounds easy, right?
This is the only page in a new spreadsheet, created from new, in Win Pro 2010, excel 2010. Cols C & D are values (hard coded, Number format). Col B is all null except for “1” in each cell next to the labels, as a helper series, iaw a web forum fix. Col A is x axis labels (hard coded, no spaces in strings, text format), with null cells in between. The labels are every 4 or 5 rows apart with null in between, marking month ends, the data columns are readings taken each week.
Y axis is automatic, and works fine. 1050 rows of data for all columns (i.e. 20 years of trend data, and growing). The Chart I have created (type thin line with tick markers) WILL NOT display x axis labels associated with more than 150 rows of data. (Noting 150/4= 38 labels initially chart ok, out of 1050/4= 263 total months labels in column A.) It does chart all 1050 rows of data values in Y at all times. I change the charted data range to 160 or more rows of data (155 to all 1050) and suddenly the labels become random. It will display labels 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, and miss all labels in between and all after 100 data rows.
I revert to 150 data lines plotted, it goes back to first 38 labels ok. Repeat to 160+ rows plotted, random again, only with a new random selection of labels displayed. All others are missing. So the chart is now largely meaningless, since you can not tell how fast the readings are increasing. I have played around with numbers of rows (using 100 to 1050), chart types line, scatter, and ribbon, even cone – same happens when I change the number of data rows in all types. I have played with the format of the chart in every way I can find a control for, including drag/expanding 165 row ticks out to 3 times A3 page size to make 2cm gaps between labels, does not reinstate the missing labels.
Is this a known bug with later versions of excel? (like finding the hard way cells now only hold 255 characters, so losing half your clients comments! ) Is there a work around?
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(note the same data set in my old home XP excel charts this fine in every way)(and on the first go)(copied hard data from old XP version) Thank you, Chandoo. Best Regards, M.