>> That's more or less what I want. (But with the names of the events on 
>> the dots.)
> 
> Hmm I don't know how or if it's possible to set that up automatically.  
> How many data points is it?

About two-dozen.

> You can tell Excel to add a label to each data-point, but it seems to 
> want to convert each Y value to a number before displaying it (so text 
> all comes out as zero).

Exactly.

If you have the dates as the Y axis, it works for some reason, but if 
you try to set it as the X axis... it fails.

> Unless your events are numbered you will need 
> to edit each label text and link it back to the text cell.  You could 
> probably write a short VB script to do this to all data points if you've 
> got more than 10 or so to do.

You know what? I think I'll use GNUplot. It'll probably be 80% faster...

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