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Anonymous
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6 years ago

Formatting a Bar/Line Graph: How to Adjust Legend Size

I have a bar/line graph where I have a lot of data and the data names are pretty long. This causes the data names to be cut off.

Is there a way to adjust the legend so that the full data name can be seen?

Need Help

7 Replies

  • amitchandak's avatar
    amitchandak
    Super User
    6 years ago

    Anonymous , can you put legend on right and check. I doubt there is option set, you can reduce font size and try

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      6 years ago

      I tried moving the legend to all the positions on every side, and I've gone down a font size, but you still can't read the whole name.

      • v-xuding-msft's avatar
        v-xuding-msft
        Community Support
        6 years ago

        Hi Anonymous ,

         

        Due to I don’t know the specific length of your data names. I try to Expand the data names by xxxxxx…

        You can try to change the size of the visual to be bigger and this may help you. 

         

        Here are two ways:

        1. Click the visual and drag corners or sides to make the size bigger.

        You can change the Width of the Columns bigger in General.

         

        1. You can turn off the Legend and try to use a Tree Map to show the Legend.

         

        Currently, there is no way we can arrange the legends as per the space on our visualization. With the default options there is no way to word wrap the legend.

        Please click the Idea link below and vote for this function.

        Idea Link: https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=9fdd7374-ded0-4221-86ab-951176d5ca4f