Add data labels to a chart. Click the data series or chart. To label one data point, after clicking the series, click that data point. In the upper right corner, next to the chart, click Add Chart Element > Data Labels. To change the location, click the arrow, and choose an option.

If your chart contains chart titles (ie. the name of the chart) or axis titles (the titles shown on the x, y or z axis of a chart) and data labels (which provide further detail on a particular data point on the chart), you can edit those titles and labels.

To format data labels, select your chart, and then in the Chart Design tab, click Add Chart Element > Data Labels > More Data Label Options. Click Label Options and under Label Contains , pick the options you want.

Add a data series to a chart in Excel. Show a new data series in your chart (graph) by including the series and its name in the chart source data.

Right-click the category labels you want to change, and click Select Data. In the Horizontal (Category) Axis Labels box, click Edit . In the Axis label range box, enter the labels you want to use, separated by commas.

Use Excel with your keyboard and a screen reader to add a title, data labels, and a legend to a chart. We have tested it with Narrator, JAWS, and NVDA, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques.

To attach text labels to data points in an xy (scatter) chart, follow these steps: On the worksheet that contains the sample data, select the cell range B1:C6. In Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and in earlier versions of Excel, follow these steps: Click Chart on the Insert menu.

To quickly identify a data series in a chart, you can add data labels to the data points of the chart. By default, the data labels are linked to values on the worksheet, and they update automatically when changes are made to these values.

Learn best ways to select a range of data to create a chart, and how that data needs to be arranged for specific charts.

To make a chart easier to understand, you can add chart titles and axis titles, to any type of chart in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word.