Labels on XY charts?

Hi
I have some data from a number of locations. The data takes the form of an average and a variance. I want to produce an XY scatter plot of it with +each point labeled with the name of the site+. It's the last part that I can't seem to accomplish in Numbers. It doesn't seem possible in Excel either, without resorting to VBA voodoo.
The data is shown here:
http://glennproctor.fastmail.fm/photos/values.png
and the closest chat I can get to what I want is:
http://glennproctor.fastmail.fm/photos/graph.png
.. however as you can see it's virtually meaningless without the labels.
The "Data Point Label" menu in the Series tab of the inspector is tantalizingly greyed out, so that's not an option.
Any suggestions?
Glenn.

Hi Nuria,
It cannot set label to each point of XY Chart.
If you really want to give a label to distinguish each entry, I recommend to use bubble chart. Then set the bubble chart as this:
1) Set X values with 1, 2, 3, ... , 34, just as simple labels.
2) Set Y values and size with your real data.

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