Solved: Rotating labels on X axis in a line chart

sahilk · ‎07-31-2020

Hello Team,

I have long text labels that need to represented on the axis, is there a way other than font size to rotate this labels by 45 or 90 deegre in a line chart visual. I can see this option in bar chart but could not find any suct otion for Line chart.

Thanks in advance.

parry2k · ‎07-31-2020

@sahilk I don't think you can change the angle of the x-axis. Post this as an idea on ideas forum.

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dax · ‎08-04-2020

Hi @sahilk ,

Yes, as @parry2k mentioned and I test this in my environment, I didn't find this option in setting. In addition, when you decrease the width of chart, it will automatically change its rotating like below

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Zoe Zhi

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