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FenTigger
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X (and Y) Axis label font size

Hi 

I don't know if this is something that someone can help me with. I've got a risk heatmap visualisation. That's all great. I need to export this to PowerPoint. I know that my boss will say "can you make the text for the axis larger, no one will be able to read it". 

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As far as I can see, there's no option to change this. OK, so I can remove it and add a bigger legend in PowerPoint? Oh, no I can't leave it blank, I can't put a space in or some other non-printing character. WTF.

 

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Am I missing some obvious option to either increase the font size, or not have it displayed? Using Version: 2.95.983.0 32-bit (July 2021)

Thanks 

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@FenTigger Did you scroll down far enough?

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Greg_Deckler
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@FenTigger Select your visual. Go to the Format pane (paint roller icon) in your Visualizations pane. Expand X-Axis section. Increase the font size.



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Hey Greg. Thanks for responding. That option is greyed out as I don't want the numerical scale showing - the heatmap is a High Medium Low affair rather than numerical values. The visualisation is a scatter plot and I'm using 1 to represent Low etc, plus some special sauce to separate the values. These are meaningless in terms of the users - LMH labels are all in the background image.

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@FenTigger Try flipping on the x-axis, adjust the font size for the title and then flip the x-axis back off.



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Thanks again. That font size adjustment only seems to apply to the numbers, not the label 😞 Nice idea tho' 🙂PowerBI4.jpg

 

@FenTigger Did you scroll down far enough?

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D'oh! That was well buried off the screen. Thanks for your patience. That's absolutely the thing I was looking for. You're a star!

I think I'm going to have to go with the ineligant solution of cropping/ photoshopping them out of the screenshot and re-labelling in PowerPoint.

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