There are a couple of free and very handy Excel utilities that can be used
to apply data labels from a worksheet to a chart:

Rob Bovey's Chart labeler, http://appspro.com
John Walkenbach's Chart Tools, http://j-walk.com

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"nick" <nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have the following data
>
> Name Value Alias
> A 102 aaa
> B 323 bbb
> C 234 ccc
> D 121 ddd
> E 121 eee
>
> I created a simple bar chart based on Name and value.
>
> Is it possible to show the Alias(aaa, bbb) as data label in the graph?