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Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

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Jake Carville on 08 Jun 2016 20:01:23

I think you should be able to type whatever you want into the X and Y axis to make up the title for them.
This seems like a simple feature and works really well in Excel.

When I have multiple fields in a chart the axis is long and ugly, where a simple edit should be available to shorten this down.

Administrator on 05 Apr 2017 07:01:08

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:15

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

How about also being able to change the color of your axis labels on all visuals too!

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Scott Edgerton on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:33

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

I would also like to add, the ability to manually change the legend titles in the same manner. For the simple graphs such as the Stacked Column, having the function to remove "count of" from each legend label would greatly improve the aesthetics of the graphs.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:43

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

maybe I am still a newbie but I can't find an option where I can format data labels and XY axis - % points, size, etc.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:57

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

let the user enter the axis titles to what ever they want

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:09:01

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

The ability to manually change the X and Y axis titles on individual graphs like you can do on the card visual.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:47

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

I think you should add the funtionality anyway. In certain situations it would help with column/measure name duplication

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Tan on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:43

RE: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel

When I import data from SQL, most of the field headers do not have spaces in the name, such as TotalSales or CountryName. When I add these fields to a chart axis, and add an axis title, I would like to rename the title to something presentable, like "Total Sales" or "Country Name". Can this feature be added?