I have found dozens of little stupid things like this that don't work the
way they used to. Not exactly bugs, I guess, but not exactly working right.
I think they were rushed into releasing Excel 12 with a beta-quality
charting system. I'm hoping they have a chance to fix it in Excel 14.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"John" wrote in message
...
disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is
locked... etc

"Andy Pope" wrote:

The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated.
But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected.

Cheers
Andy

John wrote:
I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to
select the
series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do

"Andy Pope" wrote:


Hi,

Check the options,
Show chart element names on hover
Show data point values on hover

Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section.

Cheers
Andy

John wrote:

In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it
would
give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is
that
correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without
double
clicking on it... want to just hover over it

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


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Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel
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