Hi,

And whilst MS consider your good suggestion you maybe interested in this
free addin that will allow you to move your data labels around.

http://www.appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm

Cheers
Andy

Stuart Bratesman wrote:
Excel charts should allow my mouse to drag all the data labels for a whole
series in unison. For example, instead of having to move each data label
one-at-a-time to the right of each column, I should be able to move them all
together. Aside from the time savings, the greatest advantage would be the
ability to move all of the labels a precisely uniform and equal distance from
their original locations.

This feature would be especially useful when one-or-more series in a stacked
column chart is too small to allow enough space to display its labels within
the the column

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
http://www.andypope.info