Sorry I wasn’t clear. When I said “You can’t modify the built-in chart tooltips” I meant they can’t be modified at all. Tushar’s add-in does not modify the tooltips, it only turns the real ones off, and simulates custom ones. To do this it pops up a label that contains the text you want to display.

Tushar’s add-in works great, however when applied to your gapminder 2, it messes up the data labels, so it seems his utility is meant for “hovering” data labels only and not for chart tips editing.

You can’t modify the built-in chart tooltips to any great extent. You can turn them off, and pop up your own shapes with the desired information, using chart events to drive VBA code that handles these custom messages. Tushar Mehta has done something along these lines, but I don’t know if it’s a tutorial or just a program that handles it. It would make a great blog topic here, though, so I’ve put it onto my list. I’ll get to it a week from whenever.

Is there a way to edit the content of the chart tip for the bubbles in the sample s/sheet ?

I know the chart tip is part of tool tips, which you can edit (font and background color) under windows display propoerties, but I woulD like to edit this hovering tip to display my own value or just one of the values e.g. operating profit.

thanks

My file does not make use of Solver.

Prompts for VB project passwords are often the cause of third party COM or .NET add-ins which do not properly release system resources. These ad-ins may not even be related to Excel, and they are definitely not related to the VB project whose password is being requested. These are a difficult thing to track down and fix.

Thanks,
-Alok