Show Data Labels Excel. Pass a boolean value to enable or disable the series name for the data label. Use cell values as data labels right click the data series or data label to display more data for and then click format data labels.
Select the chart choose the chart elements option click the data labels arrow and then more options. One way to do this is to click the format tab within the chart tools contextual tab in the ribbon. If you have more than one data series you can select a series first then turn on data labels for that series only.
Right click the data label and then click format data label or format data labels.
Choose the location of placement of data labels like center inside end outside end base end callouts etc. If you want to show legend select the chart on your ms excel worksheet a plus sign will appear at the top right corner of the table. 1 1 custom data labels with symbols the basic idea behind custom label is to connect each data label to certain cell in the excel worksheet and so whatever goes in that cell will appear on the chart as data label. Then select the data labels to format from the current selection button group.