We've been waiting. In the meantime, there are a couple of free Excel
utilities you could try.

Rob Bovey's Chart Labeler, http://appspro.com/Utilities/ChartLabeler.htm
John Walkenbach's Chart Tools,
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/charttools.htm

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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"Philippe" wrote in message
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I began using Office with Office 95, about 12 years ago. Before that, I
used
Lotus and Quattro Pro. With those softwares, I had no problem to graph
column
A and B as X and Y axis, and use a third column C as a source for data
labels.

With the various new Excel versions since Excel 95, I always look for such
a
possibility, without ever finding it. I don't see it in Excel 2007 either.
All I can do in Excel is limited to use the content of column A or B as
data
label, but there is no possibility to use a third column as data label.

To display other data labels than the values of X or Y (which is not
really
useful as I can read the values on the axis), I have to use VBA.

Is Microsoft considering some day to allow a third column for data labels
?

Thanks in advance for any answer.
--
Phil

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