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Anonymous
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Graphical User Interface (GUI)

How to leave the bars of the bar chart more distant?

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@Anonymous,

There is no built-in functionality in Power BI Desktop that can be used to change distance between bars. Some ideas about this issue have been submitted in the following links, please vote them up.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/16737364-allow-configurable-gap-w...
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17024359-there-should-be-a-option...

Besides, as a workaround, you can consider to use R to achieve this requirement, for more details, please review the similar threads below.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6085238/adding-space-between-bars-in-ggplot2
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12040245/how-to-increase-the-space-between-the-bars-in-a-bar-plo...


Regards,

 

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