Favorite Excel Graph Axis Labels
Excel includes a variety of built-in formats that cover general numeric currency percentage exponential date time and custom numeric.
Excel graph axis labels. Stop Labels overlapping chart. Right-click in the axis and. Click the Format Axis option.
The chart uses text from your source data for axis labels. In charts axis labels are shown below the horizontal also known as category axis next to the vertical also known as value axis and in a 3-D chart next to the depth axis. See below screen shot.
Open the Labels dropdown. Format the value axis horizontal axis so its minimum is locked in at zero. Right click on the Axis.
To change the format of the label on the Excel 2016 chart axis do the following. Right click at the axis you want to format its labels as thousandsmillions select Format Axis in the context menu. Your chart uses text from its source data for these axis labels.
If I delete this chart then select both region and code along with activity. To move the Y Axis back to the left right-click the Y Axis and change the Label Position from High to Low in the Format Axis. To sort X Axis alphabetically the quick way is to sort the table.
If you see numbers there instead of the desired text click Edit and select the range where the text labels are. Let me insert a standard column chart and lets run through some options in adjusting the labels that appear in the horizontal category axis. But pay attention to the rules.