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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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on 18 Apr 2022 20:53:02

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

There is no option to format the text in the category label. I would like some basic abilities for text manipulation on display like:

Word Wrap
Size of Text
Color of Text
Position (both vertical and horizontal)

If possible I would also love an option to have the text auto format based on the size of the box

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:53:02

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

Currently I work on a project to create Financial Statement Report or Dashboard using Power BI Desktop.
I create a measure to calculate Current Ratio. Since financial ratios (including Current Ratio) need explanation, i wrote a DAX expression with If statement to create measure that return dynamic long text (string). The the problem now is, i didn't found any appropriate visual for my dynamic long text. Card works, but it doesn't support wrap text properties for the values (the wrap property only works for category name).

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:53:02

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

Word wrap is really needed in the Treemap but also in Cards.
The names of the categories should be able to wrap, like it is a possibility to turn on word wrap in other visuals.

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on 18 Apr 2022 20:53:02

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

Currently this functionality is partially available but would be exceedingly useful for many of us if it were to also be added to the chart legends and detail labels for all chart types (including bar, column and pie charts)

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Sue G. on 13 Apr 2022 23:55:16

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

Please add this formatting option. Space on the canvas is limited. Often there is no room to expand the chart to display all the legends fully. Yet there is so much white space in the chart object itself to fully show the legend - if the legend items could only be displayed over two lines.

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Ben S on 04 Apr 2022 17:48:11

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

Please add this. Currently find these bar charts unusable if even a single value is too long to fit the space.

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Rohan Kandra on 30 Mar 2022 00:07:36

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

Why on earth can't you implement this ?!?!?!!!

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Jeff Ong on 22 Mar 2022 07:00:47

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

I had received many requests from various customers to have the word wrap feature on the Legend in the visualization. Example, some of the name for the product category could be long, and it will get cut-off. Though the user can hover over the mouse pointer, or enlarge the visualization to view the full text of the legend, it is not very usual friendly.


Since Microsoft have implement the word wraps for the title in Card visualization etc., I think it should extend to all the other text element to allow user to toggle on and off for the word wrap feature.

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Robert Young on 23 Feb 2022 10:17:48

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

Also need this. Thanks for raising

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David Johnson on 01 Feb 2022 21:44:42

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

I am dumbfounded that this incredibly useful and basic functionality (word wrap!) has yet to be implemented and seems to have been languishing as a request since 2017.

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