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    connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    i have some comment boxes on a chart, above the time it happened.
    the problem is that I'm updating this chart every day and add more days.
    the updates move the chart and the boxes are in the wrong place.
    is there a way to staple them to a specific date?

    you can see in this image:
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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    Add another series with only the data points that have comments having a value.
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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    tried and i didn't see anything in the chart.
    also, after doing that, how do i actually connect the comment boxes to those dates?

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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    Can you post example file of what you tried?

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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    attached is the original2012.xlsx file.

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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    See attached.
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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    brilliant!
    took me some time to reproduce on my excel (there are some steps to get this done your way) but its working great.

    thanks!

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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    In xl2013 you could have added data labels whose text way based on a range of cells. One issue would have been that the area chart does not offer position setting for data labels/callouts.
    To get around that you could have repeated the information as another data series plotted as a line. The add datalabels/callouts to that series and positioned them Above.

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    Re: connect a comment box in chart to a specific time stamp?

    @ orenmi

    Based on your last post it seems that you are satisfied with the solution(s) you've received but you haven't marked your thread as SOLVED. I'll do that for you now but please keep in mind for your future threads that Rule #9 requires you to do that yourself. If your problem has not been solved you can use Thread Tools (located above your first post) and choose "Mark this thread as unsolved".
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