Comments on: Individually Formatted Dual Category Labels

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:10 +0000

Daniel -

Pivot charts do not allow you to add data to a chart unless the data came from the pivot table. So you can’t add the dummy series needed to supply the formatted labels.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:03 +0000

Jon, You’re the man!

Is there a way to apply this to pivot charts?

By: So,pm

So,pm — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:00:55 +0000

Just what I was looking for.
Thanks!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:48:04 +0000

Mark -

Change the text in the cells that the added data labels reference.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:29:56 +0000

Take your chart- I want to change the appearance of the data labels on y axis to read:2-3 days; 3-5days; 6-10 days, etc instead of values you have. the underlying dats does not change, just the scale point names change –
I’d rather not get into VBA coding –
and I am under a tight deadline.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:24:05 +0000

The better way is the way I showed in the chart. Try again and follow all of the steps carefully. What do you get which is different than what I get?

By: Lois Huang

Lois Huang — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:44:08 +0000

I don’t understand your way to add chart label, but I find another way, I name the chart title “mechanic”, X-axis “electrical” and Y-axis “hydraulic”, then move them down in a line under the X-axis, so the titles turn to be labels,you can format them easily.
The question is that you need to be very careful to place them on the same line. Is there any better way for this question?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:32:10 +0000

Liu -

Good point, this is a simpler way to handle the inner labels. The added series has to be a line chart type, and it has to use only the inner label column for its category labels. You then need to add another series for the outer labels.

By: Liu 's chart blog

Liu 's chart blog — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:07:41 +0000

maybe you dont need to use the xy chart and the labelers changer?
use a col of 0 to draw a line , set the line serial’s data label = the category ,it’s the same