That's how Excel lays out the chart elements, with labels on top of all the
series. Surely there's no possible situation in which you'd want the lines
to obscure the labels, is there? Oh.

You could try moving the labels off to the side, or put textboxes outside
the plot area, or remove the labels and hope the legend is an appropriate
way to label these regions.

- Jon
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"Uhl" wrote in message
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I have a combination chart; a stacked column chart on the Primary Axis
and a line chart on the Secondary Axis. I use the stacked column chart
to display "bands" which I then overlay with the second data series. So
far so good, the line segments and markers draw "on top of" the bands.

But when I turn on data labels for the stacked column chart (to
identify the bands), they display in *front* of the line series?! The
column itself, remains behind, but the text of the data label is
drawing on top of the series.

Is there a way to force the labels *behind* the series on the secondary
axis?