If additional text is being added that makes the label much longer, it may be truncated, again depending on your Excel version and the horizontal size of the chart. With regard to Trevor's issue, note that the screen shot included with this tip shows the European countries along the Y axis, and the longest of those is "Bosnia and Herzegovina" (22 characters). The only way I could affect Y-axis width was to make the overall chart wider or narrower, and Excel would redraw the labels. Plus, if you attempt to format the labels in the Format Axis pane, there is no setting for the label area width. Clicking and trying to drag on the sides or corners of the label area does nothing. It should also be noted that if there are too many labels to display along the allotted Y-axis space, then Excel will only display a subset of the labels, such as every other label, every third label, every fourth label, or so on.Īs far as manually adjusting the width for the Y-axis labels, we could find no way to do this. If the label contained spaces, then Excel would try to fit everything it could up to a space, and then display ellipses (.) from that point. Upon completing this step, you will see the new cells populated with the Labels. Click Finish to complete this Text to Columns step. This is a single cell that will be the first cell used for the Labels. Choose a destination cell for the Label words to flow into. Basically, it is a line on a graph that runs horizontally through zero. X-axis is one of the axes of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional chart. Before you begin, you must first understand what the term x-axis and label mean. It is interesting to note that in all instances of my testing, if the Y-axis label contained no spaces, when it got too wide, Excel simply hid the entire label. You can see from the preview how the labels will be split. In this section, you will learn about x-axis labels in Matplotlib in Python. On a high-resolution monitor, I got the width to be about 80 characters by making the workbook window quite wide and then the embedded chart to be a sizeable portion of that workbook's horizontal area. (This number of characters may vary based on the version of Excel and page layout.) When it comes to embedded charts, the width displayed depends on the width of the embedded chart.
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The width adjustment is done to allow the full display of the longest text, up to about 69 characters on a sheet-size chart. Trevor is asking, specifically, about Y-axis label widths in bar charts.) (See Figure 1.)įigure 1. If they go vertically, from bottom to top, then that is a column chart. (Note that in Excel, a bar chart has the bars extending from left to right, horizontally. In the newest versions of Excel-specifically, the version with Office 365-Excel adjusts the width of the Y-axis labels just fine when you create your bar chart. This problem may actually be an issue related to the version of Excel you are using or, possibly, the version of Excel used to create the workbook. He wonders if there is a way to make the labels wider. Even if Trevor changes the font size, the labels will only show 7-9 characters. The labels on the Y-axis contain the names of European countries, but the label width isn't wide enough.