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Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

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David Vella on 03 Mar 2017 15:47:34

If you have long names on a bar chart Y-Axis they get truncated. This is a problem if you have ones that start with something similar. Could we have a word wrap option on the format menu that takes advantage of the vertical space so the whole label can be shown.

Administrator on 01 Apr 2024 05:43:28

We are working on this

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Aleks on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:03

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

The need for the word wrap formatting feature in a bar chart is extremely highly. A solution is very much appreciated.

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Lars Johannes on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:50

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Agreed, absolutely crucial. Would be good to combine that with the possibility to independently set label width.

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Rob Love on 05 Jul 2020 23:04:24

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'+1 badly needed, product is hobbled without the ability to display the full text of each item

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Josh Matheson on 05 Jul 2020 23:03:14

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there was a custom visual for long text which was deleted for some reason - can we get this back please

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Alexandra on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:58

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And/or allow the width of the labels to be expanded separately from just expanding the width of the whole visual.

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Derek Massenberg on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:23

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

I agree, please add the ability to Word Wrap Y-Axis Labels on Stacked Bar Charts. Otherwise the only way to read the labels is to hover the mouse pointer. I see that Stacked Column Charts automatically Word Wrap the X-Axis Labels. Why not do the same for Y-Axis Labels?

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Madhura Tutare on 05 Jul 2020 22:50:55

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Option to concatenate Data labels to Category labels.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:50:36

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How is this still not available??? I can do it in Tableau, I should be able to do it in PowerBI.

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Hamik on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:23

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Size of text in treemap is a must! Waiting for that one :-)

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:46:42

RE: Add word wrap to bar chart Y-Axis Labels

Font size in tree map needs to be flexible and user-defined. It is too small to look at

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