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How to display text labels in the X-axis of scatter chart in Excel?Have you ever encountered a problem that the text labels cannot be shown correctly on the X-axis of a scatter chart as below screenshot shown? In this article, I introduce an around-way for solving this problem.Quickly Insert Bubble/Speedometer/Bell Curve ChartThe Bubble chart, speedometer chart and bell curve chart is usually used for analyze data in Excel, but the creation of all of them is complex in Excel.
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A bubble chart is a variation of a scatter chart in which the data points are replaced with bubbles, and an additional dimension of the data is represented in the size of the bubbles. Just like a scatter chart, a bubble chart does not use a category axis — both horizontal and vertical axes are value axes. In this video I'll show you how to add data labels to a chart in Excel and then change the range that the data labels are linked to. This video covers both Windows and Mac versions of Excel.
Here, Kutools for Excel's Charts group can help you quickly create the chart, chart or chart.Display text labels in X-axis of scatter chartActually, there is no way that can display text labels in the X-axis of scatter chart in Excel, but we can create a line chart and make it look like a scatter chart.1. Select the data you use, and click Insert Insert Line & Area Chart Line with Markers to select a line chart. See screenshot:2. Then right click on the line in the chart to select Format Data Series from the context menu. See screenshot:3. In the Format Data Series pane, under Fill & Line tab, click Line to display the Line section, then check No line option. The Best Office Productivity Tools Kutools for Excel Solves Most of Your Problems, and Increases Your Productivity by 80%.
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We all know that Chart Data Labels help us highlight important data points. When you “add data labels” to a chart series, excel can show either “category”, “series” or “data point values” as data labels.But what if you want to have a data label that is altogether different, like this:You can change data labels and point them to different cells using this little trick. First add data labels to the chart (Layout Ribbon Data Labels). Define the new data label values in a bunch of cells, like this:. Now, click on any data label. This will select “all” data labels. Now click once again.
At this point excel will select only one data label. Go to Formula bar, press = and point to the cell where the data label for that chart data point is defined. Repeat the process for all other data labels, one after another.
See the screencast.Points to note:. This approach works for one data label at a time. So if you have a large chart, you are in for a lot of clicks and manic mouse maneuvering. That brings us to Rob Bovey’s. This free tool can automate the whole custom chart labeling for you.
If you want more formatting options, consider adding text boxes and point them to cells instead. See the post.Share your Chart Formatting Tricks:What are your favorite chart formatting tricks?
My favorite tricks are using text boxes to add rich formatting to charts and messing with fonts and colors.What about you?Recently in Charting:. So, now that there are custom data labels, is there any way to change the text justification? All I ever see is centered text but I would like to have mine left justified. Whatever the formatting is in the linked cell doesn't get reflected in the chart. In your example it works OK since there is a number (short length) and then a percent change (longer length).
The centering looks OK there. I am working on a time line and would like the labels in more of a list format rather than centered. Hi,Great info!! I want to know if it possible to hide a specific data label except when the cursor is in the data.For instance, I have a lot of wells plotted in a XY chart with a map as a background, the x and y are the coordinates of each well. However, when I want to know a specific well in the chart is so hard to find it, I need to check the coordinates in the chart and then find to which well correspond those coordinates.
If I put all the well label the chart looks messy.What do you recommend me??Thank you in advance. To clarify, everything works perfect on my computer. And all the cells witch the data labels refers to contains data and there in the same workbook as the chart.
Just on a different sheet. Then I make a copy of the file, put it on a flash drive and even tjen, when I open the file from the flash drive on the same computer everything works perfect. But when I put my flash drive in another computer (I've tried several) the data labels doesn't refesh!
All cells looks the same. The chart works just fine. Text box's within the chart aswell. Just not the data labels.
And I have somewhere between 150 and 200 of hem. I don't want to update all of the manually everytime I move the file. One problem I have found - I have a 10 bar chart with the 10 bars individually linked to labels that sit in a grid alongside the source data.If I decide to hide or group together rows, the labels go out of sync.For example, If I group row 5 the charge removes the bar for that set of data but the label that was linking to bar 5 is now assigned to the new 5th bar, which was actually my 6th row of data. Bars 7, 8, 9 and 10 are also now showing the wrong labels.I don't know of a solution, but in my case the labels were numeric values so I just changed to a stacked bar chart and added a clear stack above the data with the values plotted as data. First I realise that this post is not an exact follow-on from the main topic, but now I think what I am asking for is another type of custom labels, and this thread is as close as I can find, so here goes.Can I request some help with charts?I Have 4 columns of data to plot. Sounds easy, right?This is the only page in a new spreadsheet, created from new, in Win Pro 2010, excel 2010.Cols C & D are values (hard coded, Number format).Col B is all null except for “1” in each cell next to the labels, as a helper series, iaw a web forum fix.Col A is x axis labels (hard coded, no spaces in strings, text format), with null cells in between.The labels are every 4 or 5 rows apart with null in between, marking month ends, the data columns are readings taken each week.Y axis is automatic, and works fine.1050 rows of data for all columns (i.e.
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