Stacked column chart: horizontal label text with a scrollbar

[AlexeyRusinov]

Hello everyone,

I am creating a stacked barchart which is quite wide in horizontal (showing months in two years), and I am fine with having a scrollbar inside. But the labels on x-axis are displayed vertically, and I don't know how can I display them horizontally, as usual. When the chart doesn't have enough space, it starts to display labels first diagonally, and then vertically, without asking.

Is there a way to solve it?

[v-qiuyu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @AlexeyRusinov,

Based on my test in a stacked column chart, if I put the date field in X-axis, the and change X-axis type as categorical, the X-axis labels will display vertically and generate a scroll bar automatically. Actually, there is no OOTB feature for us to format X-axis labels's orientation. You can vote on this similar idea item: Change X and Y axis labels manually, similar to Excel.

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[rpearson]

I realize this was posted almost five years ago, but there has still been no addition to change the x axis label text direction.  This is a feature in Excel, I'm not saying every feature in Excel should be in Power BI... but they're both MS products so how is this still not a thing?  They made changes to the x axis labels according to that voting link you posted... but somehow the text direction wasn't considered? It's either vertical or horizontal, no other choice, no 45 degree option, nothing.

[Habib]

As of current release, its auto handled by Power BI desktop and you can't specify any option for this.