Recently, a client asked me if it was possible to create an Excel scatter plot of his products, adding a label on each data point, and using different colors and symbols for different types of products. You could think of this as plotting 5 dimensions at once, instead of the usual two.

I quickly coded a VBA macro to do that, with a sample workbook to illustrate the usage. The macro is pretty rough, but was sufficient for my needs as is, so I haven’t put extra efforts in: feel free to improve upon it…

Here is a sample of the output:

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