I’ve created a ‘concentric’ donut chart in Excel 2003 and have placed labels next to the outermost donut – the labels are dynamic. The user completes a form, there is some sorting of data and the updated donut appears fine. The issue is that the labels are roughly in the same area (and near the correct donut segment) but have to be adjusted manually each time.. the donut is always the same size and the same number of segments.. is there any way I can get the data labels to stay in exactly the same place each time?

Have tried everything I can think of including padding the data labels with the same number of characters but they still appear in different locations each time… I would appreciate any suggestions you might have please!!

Thanks

I discoverd a ‘feature’ in Excel 2010 when labeling series and combining charts, which wasn’t there in Excel 2002. After a lot of searching the www, I still have not found the solution.

The following occurs in 2010:

When creating 2 different charts on a worksheet, and giving some points of the series in each chart one or more data labels, the labels of the copied to chart will disappear when copying one chart in to the other one. (in 2002 the labels did not disappear) (both scatter plots)

(i have 20 charts, with more than 10 series each, which i all want to combine into 1 single chart, its a kind of overview of objects postioned on a surface, so no lines)

Is there a simple work around or do i have to write some VBA code to bypass this new ‘feature’…

If the cell containing the value is formatted using a custom number format that shows the units, the label will also show the units.

Any Help would be appreciated

Ian