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Vaishnavi_M
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How to decrease the size of the Bar in bar chart

Hi,

 

I have created stacked column chart,In that X axis as Hierarchy and value as some measures(2 measures).I want to adjust the size of the bar(Small/large/medium) ,Please provide the solution. Is there any option available for decrease the size of the bar.? 
Currently I am using August released POWER BI desktop Version.

 

Thanks in Advance.

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Aabid
Frequent Visitor

I were also facing the same issue but did not found any particular or built in functionality to adjust the bar size that Power BI provides, but have found a work around to do this.

 

Initially, the chart looks something like this,

 

Power BI WA2.png

We can adjust the bar size by inserting blank measure

1-create 3 blank measure using formula as

1Blank=Blank()

2Blank=Blank()

3Blank=Blank()

 

2-Place these three in value shelf to add space in between two measure and you will get the output something like this

 

Pwoer BI WA.png

 

You can hide the legends and can create another view to show only the relevant measure names

Hope this helps you

ankitpatira
Community Champion
Community Champion

@Vaishnavi_M There is currently no feature to do that but you can specify start and end values for y-axis and that will adjust height accordingly of bars but that is the only thing possible currently.

djnww
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

At the time of this posting, I do not recall of any method to manually determine the width of a bar chart. It is pretty much determined automatically for you.

You can change the X Axis between Continuous and Categorical which will make the width wider in some cases. However the width is still automatically determined.

Dan

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