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I have a stacked bar chart that appears as so:
Quite simply, I want to reverse the order of the years so that 2011 is on top and 2019 at the bottom. Seems it would be an easy thing, but as a rookie, I'm discovering nothing in Power BI is ever easy. 😕
In my data table the "Years" column is formatted as a "date" data type, and I've tried switching from acending to decending order, and back again, but it seems to have no affect.
So how can I make this change?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Change the Y-axis type to "categorical" in the formatting pane and then sort ascending by year:
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Change the Y-axis type to "categorical" in the formatting pane and then sort ascending by year:
Proud to be a Super User!
Paul on Linkedin.
Thank you, Paul! You are officially my Hero of the Day! 😁
Well thank you!
Proud to be a Super User!
Paul on Linkedin.
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