On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
Jon Peltier said:

"Del Cotter" wrote in message
You can simplify this by naming the series '1', '2', etc., and
assigning the default series name data labels.

I forgot that's one of the genuine improvements in 2007. In 2003 or below
I use my method.

The expanded set of data label options was introduced in 2002.

Now you can see I've never encountered anything later than 2000 :-)

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