Identify scatter plot point IDs by clicking or hovering on points?

Blue1971

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Office Version
  1. 2016
Platform
  1. Windows
I have points in an Excel 2016 scatter plot chart:

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I want to determine what the IDs are of the points at a given position in the chart (so that I can find & review those records in the source table).

Notes:
  • Hovering over the points displays some info, but not the IDs of the points.
  • I had wondered if I could temporarily turn on labels to see the IDs. But Excel limits the labels that can be displayed to 1000 points. My scatter plot has more than 1000 points, and the points overlap, so labeling doesn't seem very useful in this case.


Question:

As a workaround, using VBA, is there a way to make it so when I click or hover over points, the ID of the points gets displayed?

Cheers.
 

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