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data labels in 2007
In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would
give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it |
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Apparently it doesn't work unless you activate the chart.
- Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John" wrote in message ... In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it |
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Hi,
Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the
series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated.
But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is
locked... etc "Andy Pope" wrote: The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated. But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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I have found dozens of little stupid things like this that don't work the
way they used to. Not exactly bugs, I guess, but not exactly working right. I think they were rushed into releasing Excel 12 with a beta-quality charting system. I'm hoping they have a chance to fix it in Excel 14. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John" wrote in message ... disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is locked... etc "Andy Pope" wrote: The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated. But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Jon, could you expand on what you have found? I have a page at my site I am
updating and would like to list some of those problems. Bob Flanagan "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... I have found dozens of little stupid things like this that don't work the way they used to. Not exactly bugs, I guess, but not exactly working right. I think they were rushed into releasing Excel 12 with a beta-quality charting system. I'm hoping they have a chance to fix it in Excel 14. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John" wrote in message ... disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is locked... etc "Andy Pope" wrote: The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated. But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Bob -
Where to begin.... I'll start with some severely limiting changes to the new dialogs, changes that greatly reduce one's productivity. In the Format Axis dialog, Old Excel uses option buttons to show the choices for tick marks and labels, so you can see them all before selecting, and it takes one click to select. New Excel uses dropdowns, so it takes one click to see the choices and another to select. We all know what the choices are, but there aren't that many, so why hide them, especially since the dialogs have so much blank space? In the same dialog, in Old Excel if I want to change from an Auto scale parameter to a Fixed one, I could just click on the number and edit it. In New Excel I have to click on the Fixed option first, just to enable the text box. In Old Excel if I click on Auto, the text box is highlighted, so all I have to do is type the new value, but in New Excel it's not even activated. I can't add error bars from the Format Series dialog, I have to go to the ribbon, and this adds two sets at once (X and Y), and I still have to visit the dialog to format them and select values. In Old Excel, I could double click an object (a series, an axis, whatever), make many changes in the dialog, then when I leave the dialog, I could Ctrl+Z to undo all changes, or select another object and Ctrl+Y or F4 to apply all the changes to the selection. In New Excel, double clicking no longer pops up the Format Object dialog, and if you're lucky, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y remember just the last single formatting change you made; sometimes they don't even remember that little. So far, no bugs, just poor UI design choices. The source data dialog is among the most confusing in 2007. I'm working on a charting UI add-in to alleviate some of these issues. Bugs, there are a few. If you specify custom error bar values, the syntax is: Function ErrorBar(Direction As XlErrorBarDirection, Include As XlErrorBarInclude, Type As XlErrorBarType, [Amount], [MinusValues]) In Old Excel (i.e., in tons of existing code, even based on the macro recorder), [Amount] and [MinusValues] are truly optional (note the brackets), so you need not specify them. In New Excel, these are listed as optional, but functionally they are NOT optional, so existing code falls over unless you insert "0" for the optional arguments. (Also the macro recorder has lost much of its functionality in 2007, especially involving shapes and charts. But that's a rant for another day.) I have a custom chart that has primary and secondary vertical axes. The primary vertical axis has no labels or ticks, just the line, and I set it to appear at zero. If the primary horizontal axis goes from negative to positive, the axis is a nice indicator of zero, like a special gridline. If the minimum is = zero, the axis merely appears on top of the secondary axis, and doesn't bother anyone. Except in 2007, it doesn't appear on top of the other axis, but actually to the left of the tick labels of the other axis. It took me an hour to figure out what the vertical line was just inside the left edge of the chart area. This is probably a feature, because it means coincident axes do not obscure each other; but a feature that changes functionality also breaks previous solutions. Autosizing of textboxes doesn't work as it used to. I don't recall the details, but one of my first Excel 2007 projects was designing a workaround for a client. There are more workarounds I've designed for clients and for myself, but it's still early, and they are not coming to mind. I still got in a pretty good rant, though, didn't I? - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Bob Flanagan" wrote in message ... Jon, could you expand on what you have found? I have a page at my site I am updating and would like to list some of those problems. Bob Flanagan "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... I have found dozens of little stupid things like this that don't work the way they used to. Not exactly bugs, I guess, but not exactly working right. I think they were rushed into releasing Excel 12 with a beta-quality charting system. I'm hoping they have a chance to fix it in Excel 14. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John" wrote in message ... disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is locked... etc "Andy Pope" wrote: The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated. But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Hi Jon. thanks for the rant. I had been avoiding 2007. I think I will
continue to do so grin. One of the advantages of being a retired grandparent with lots of grandkids nearby. They are a lot more fun to play with. I had run into problems with code that created charts in Excel 97-2003 not working in 2007 and having to have major modifications. Ok if I post your comments on my web site? I'm updating my page on Excel 2007 problems and your comments would add a lot. Bob "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... Bob - Where to begin.... I'll start with some severely limiting changes to the new dialogs, changes that greatly reduce one's productivity. In the Format Axis dialog, Old Excel uses option buttons to show the choices for tick marks and labels, so you can see them all before selecting, and it takes one click to select. New Excel uses dropdowns, so it takes one click to see the choices and another to select. We all know what the choices are, but there aren't that many, so why hide them, especially since the dialogs have so much blank space? In the same dialog, in Old Excel if I want to change from an Auto scale parameter to a Fixed one, I could just click on the number and edit it. In New Excel I have to click on the Fixed option first, just to enable the text box. In Old Excel if I click on Auto, the text box is highlighted, so all I have to do is type the new value, but in New Excel it's not even activated. I can't add error bars from the Format Series dialog, I have to go to the ribbon, and this adds two sets at once (X and Y), and I still have to visit the dialog to format them and select values. In Old Excel, I could double click an object (a series, an axis, whatever), make many changes in the dialog, then when I leave the dialog, I could Ctrl+Z to undo all changes, or select another object and Ctrl+Y or F4 to apply all the changes to the selection. In New Excel, double clicking no longer pops up the Format Object dialog, and if you're lucky, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y remember just the last single formatting change you made; sometimes they don't even remember that little. So far, no bugs, just poor UI design choices. The source data dialog is among the most confusing in 2007. I'm working on a charting UI add-in to alleviate some of these issues. Bugs, there are a few. If you specify custom error bar values, the syntax is: Function ErrorBar(Direction As XlErrorBarDirection, Include As XlErrorBarInclude, Type As XlErrorBarType, [Amount], [MinusValues]) In Old Excel (i.e., in tons of existing code, even based on the macro recorder), [Amount] and [MinusValues] are truly optional (note the brackets), so you need not specify them. In New Excel, these are listed as optional, but functionally they are NOT optional, so existing code falls over unless you insert "0" for the optional arguments. (Also the macro recorder has lost much of its functionality in 2007, especially involving shapes and charts. But that's a rant for another day.) I have a custom chart that has primary and secondary vertical axes. The primary vertical axis has no labels or ticks, just the line, and I set it to appear at zero. If the primary horizontal axis goes from negative to positive, the axis is a nice indicator of zero, like a special gridline. If the minimum is = zero, the axis merely appears on top of the secondary axis, and doesn't bother anyone. Except in 2007, it doesn't appear on top of the other axis, but actually to the left of the tick labels of the other axis. It took me an hour to figure out what the vertical line was just inside the left edge of the chart area. This is probably a feature, because it means coincident axes do not obscure each other; but a feature that changes functionality also breaks previous solutions. Autosizing of textboxes doesn't work as it used to. I don't recall the details, but one of my first Excel 2007 projects was designing a workaround for a client. There are more workarounds I've designed for clients and for myself, but it's still early, and they are not coming to mind. I still got in a pretty good rant, though, didn't I? - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Bob Flanagan" wrote in message ... Jon, could you expand on what you have found? I have a page at my site I am updating and would like to list some of those problems. Bob Flanagan "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... I have found dozens of little stupid things like this that don't work the way they used to. Not exactly bugs, I guess, but not exactly working right. I think they were rushed into releasing Excel 12 with a beta-quality charting system. I'm hoping they have a chance to fix it in Excel 14. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "John" wrote in message ... disapointing... thx. Brings in a number of problems if worksheet is locked... etc "Andy Pope" wrote: The chart needs to be selected, as Jon stated. But for me the tooltip appears without the actual series being selected. Cheers Andy John wrote: I have both those options checked. Strange... I actually have to select the series and then hover... which I don't want to have to do "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi, Check the options, Show chart element names on hover Show data point values on hover Office button Excel Options Advanced Display section. Cheers Andy John wrote: In 2003 I used to be able to hover over a data point on a chart and it would give me the value... in 2007 it seems I am not able to do that... is that correct? how can I see the data point value on my chart without double clicking on it... want to just hover over it -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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