I wrote this question several days ago, but was not able to get a solution to
the problem. Apologies for repeating it, but I am still hopeful that someone
knows how to do this. It seems like an important aspect of using charts, and
Excel *certainly* must have a way of dealing with this.

I have three columns of data as follows:
Name Value1 Value2
a 1 2
b 3 4
c 5 6

when i do a scatter plot, i can move the cursor to a specific item - let's
say for "b" above - and it shows ("3" 3,4). What I need is for it to show
("b" 3,4). I know that you can have all labels explicitly shown on the
chart, but i have over a thousand data points and doing that would make the
chart useless. I need to be able to find the label of some data points
though, and would like to use the cursor to see the name for that data point.
There must be a way to do this, but i have been looking and using "help" to
no avail.

Please help, and i will be eternally grateful.
-shabnam

It appears that you data for your series is in rows rather than columns.
Please confirm. In any case, if the name for series 1 is located on Sheet 1,
Cell A3, you'd enter =Sheet1!$A$3

Good luck!

"shabnam" wrote:

I wrote this question several days ago, but was not able to get a solution to
the problem. Apologies for repeating it, but I am still hopeful that someone
knows how to do this. It seems like an important aspect of using charts, and
Excel *certainly* must have a way of dealing with this.

I have three columns of data as follows:
Name Value1 Value2
a 1 2
b 3 4
c 5 6

when i do a scatter plot, i can move the cursor to a specific item - let's
say for "b" above - and it shows ("3" 3,4). What I need is for it to show
("b" 3,4). I know that you can have all labels explicitly shown on the
chart, but i have over a thousand data points and doing that would make the
chart useless. I need to be able to find the label of some data points
though, and would like to use the cursor to see the name for that data point.
There must be a way to do this, but i have been looking and using "help" to
no avail.

Please help, and i will be eternally grateful.
-shabnam

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"Barb R." wrote:

It appears that you data for your series is in rows rather than columns.
Please confirm. In any case, if the name for series 1 is located on Sheet 1,
Cell A3, you'd enter =Sheet1!$A$3

Good luck!

"shabnam" wrote:

I wrote this question several days ago, but was not able to get a solution to
the problem. Apologies for repeating it, but I am still hopeful that someone
knows how to do this. It seems like an important aspect of using charts, and
Excel *certainly* must have a way of dealing with this.

I have three columns of data as follows:
Name Value1 Value2
a 1 2
b 3 4
c 5 6

when i do a scatter plot, i can move the cursor to a specific item - let's
say for "b" above - and it shows ("3" 3,4). What I need is for it to show
("b" 3,4). I know that you can have all labels explicitly shown on the
chart, but i have over a thousand data points and doing that would make the
chart useless. I need to be able to find the label of some data points
though, and would like to use the cursor to see the name for that data point.
There must be a way to do this, but i have been looking and using "help" to
no avail.

Please help, and i will be eternally grateful.
-shabnam

Yes, the data is in rows, meaning that point "a" has 1 for x value and 2 for
y value. The "name" for the series does not work because it does not assign
a "label" with the corresponding point, but lists ALL names under Series 1
which is a bizarre.

Here is what i need to know. If i find a data point in the plot that i want
to examine, i need to know what its label is.

thanks.
-shabnam

"Barb R." wrote:

It appears that you data for your series is in rows rather than columns.
Please confirm. In any case, if the name for series 1 is located on Sheet 1,
Cell A3, you'd enter =Sheet1!$A$3

Good luck!

"shabnam" wrote:

I wrote this question several days ago, but was not able to get a solution to
the problem. Apologies for repeating it, but I am still hopeful that someone
knows how to do this. It seems like an important aspect of using charts, and
Excel *certainly* must have a way of dealing with this.

I have three columns of data as follows:
Name Value1 Value2
a 1 2
b 3 4
c 5 6

when i do a scatter plot, i can move the cursor to a specific item - let's
say for "b" above - and it shows ("3" 3,4). What I need is for it to show
("b" 3,4). I know that you can have all labels explicitly shown on the
chart, but i have over a thousand data points and doing that would make the
chart useless. I need to be able to find the label of some data points
though, and would like to use the cursor to see the name for that data point.
There must be a way to do this, but i have been looking and using "help" to
no avail.

Please help, and i will be eternally grateful.
-shabnam