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admin_xlsior
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5 years ago
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Trick for value too big

Hello guys,   Looking for idea or trick, let say in a column chart of months, when we have data value which is too big in particular month only, is there a way to make it more nice visibility, but ...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi admin_xlsior ,

     

    Yes. You cannot use "log" option if there are some values that less than or equal to 0 in the field.

    Values are all positive.

    Changing the scale type from "linear" to "log" is a method to significantly reduce data fluctuations, you could have a try.

     

    Hope that's what you were looking for.

    Best Regards,

    Yuna

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

     

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selimovd
Most Valuable Professional
5 years ago

Hey admin_xlsior ,

 

if you want to change the value you can do that with a measure.Something like:

MyMeasure = IF ([Measure] > 100000, 100000, [Measure])



Otherwise you can also limit the y-axis and override the max of the axis:

 

If you need any help please let me know.
If I answered your question I would be happy if you could mark my post as a solution ✔️ and give it a thumbs up 👍
 
Best regards
Denis
 

 

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joannm
Frequent Visitor
1 year ago

"Otherwise you can also limit the y-axis and override the max of the axis:"

This is what ended up working for me. Even log didn't create a chart that had readable bars for the lower values.

 

Setting the max value to a value much lower than the one outlier allowed the smaller value columns to be visible and kept the one extremely large column taller than the rest, albeit not proportionally, and with a data label easily understood to be much higher. 

 

Thanks!