Hi,

By any chance are you using xl2007?
If so the type ='s does not work. You need to insert the textbox and then
use the formula bar to enter the cell reference.

Cheers
Andy

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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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"J Austin" wrote in message
...
Previous posts indicate a successfuly method for displaying data/text from
a
cell into a chart. Following this procedure, I select the chart, press
the
equal sign, and select the cell, and then enter. The address of the sheet
and the cell address are displayed after the equal sign. When I press
enter
nothing seems to happen. The data are supposed to display in the middle
of
the chart, but I do not get any display of the data. I am in a Pivot
Table
worksheet but did not directly insert a Pivot Chart. I used getpivotdata
and
created new cells for plotting into the inserted column chart using that
data. I appear to be able to utilize all Excel charting funcgtions with
these charts. Am I missing something?

J. Austin