Good point. While we wait for MS to consider this for some future release
of Office, you might want to look at the following:

Double-click the labels, then select the Alignment tab. Depending on the
kind of chart you have, you will have some kind of options. For a column
chart they include things like Outside End, Inside End, Center, and Inside
Base.

For even better refinement get Rob Bovey's XY Chartlabeler add-in from
www.appspro.com. It includes a "move data label" capability that moves all
the data labels for a series.

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Tushar Mehta
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Using excel since Office 4.0x, I wonder how come we cannot move all values
text in a bar chart. The programs always put this text at the top of the
bars. Is there a way to move all of them at once? I have tried to do it, but
everytime I try to select them it allow me to move only one label.

Thanks and good luck.

Tibuix

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