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Format Value (Y) Axis
The Format Value (Y) Axis dialog helps you to format the value (Y) axis of the chart and contains the following tabs: Axis, Tick Mark, Font, Orientation and Format. This dialog appears when you right-click a chart and select Format Axes (unavailable to pie, indicator, heat map and org charts) > Format Value (Y) Axis from the shortcut menu.
OK
Applies the changes and closes the dialog.
Cancel
Does not retain any changes and closes the dialog.
Displays the help document about this feature.
Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.
Axis
Specifies the general properties for the axis.
Option
Specifies the options for the axis.
- Minimum Value
Specifies the minimum value that is to be displayed on the axis. - Maximum Value
Specifies the maximum value that is to be displayed on the axis. - Increment
Specifies the difference between two adjacent values on the axis. - Number of Tick Marks
Specifies how many tick marks to be displayed on the axis. - Show Gridlines
Specifies whether to show the horizontal gridlines in the chart. - Show Percent
Specifies whether to show the value labels on the axis in percent. Only applies to bullet, bar/bench, line, and area chart that are not 100% stacked type.
Specifies the line style for the axis.
- Color
Specifies the color of the axis. - Style
Specifies the style of the axis. - Transparency
Specifies the transparency for the color of the axis. - Thickness
Specifies the thickness of the axis, in inches.
Gap
Specifies the gap properties for the labels on the axis.
- Label Axis Gap
Specifies the distance between the label and the axis, in inches. - Best Effect
Specifies whether to adjust the labels on the axis automatically to make them placed best.
Tick Mark
The tab consists of two sub tabs:
Major Tick Mark
Specifies properties of the major tick marks on the axis.
Type
Specifies the type of the major tick marks on the axis.
- None
If selected, major tick marks will not be shown on the axis and it will be meaningless to specify all the other major tick mark related properties. - Inside
If selected, major tick marks will be inside the chart. - Outside
If selected, major tick marks will be outside the chart. - Cross
If selected, major tick marks will be across the axis.
Line
Specifies the line properties of the major tick marks on the axis.
- Correlate with Axis
If checked, the line properties of the major tick marks will correlate with that of the axis automatically.- Color
Specifies the color of the major tick marks. - Transparency
Specifies the transparency for the color of the major tick marks. - Style
Specifies the type of the major tick marks. - Thickness
Specifies the thickness of the major tick marks, in inches.
- Color
- Tick Mark Length
Specifies the length for the major tick marks, in inches.
Option
Specifies the other properties of the major tick mark labels on the axis.
- Show Major Tick Mark Labels
Specifies whether to display the labels of the major tick marks on the axis. If checked, the following properties will be enabled. - Label Every N Major Tick Marks
Specifies the frequency at which the major tick marks will be labeled. - Show Axis Label Tips
Specifies whether to display the complete label text when the mouse pointer points at a label on the axis. - Number of Major Labels
Specifies how many major tick mark labels to be displayed on the axis.- Auto
If checked, all major tick mark labels will be shown. - Fixed
If checked, you can specify the number of the major tick mark labels to be displayed on the axis.
- Auto
Minor Tick Mark
Specifies properties of the minor tick marks on the axis.
Type
Specifies the type of the minor tick marks on the axis.
- None
If selected, minor tick marks will not be shown on the axis and it will be meaningless to specify all the other minor tick mark related properties. - Inside
If selected, minor tick marks will be inside the chart. - Outside
If selected, minor tick marks will be outside the chart. - Cross
If selected, minor tick marks will be across the axis.
Line
Specifies the line properties of the minor tick marks on the axis.
- Correlate with Axis
If checked, the line properties of the minor tick marks will correlate with that of the axis automatically.- Color
Specifies the color of the minor tick marks. - Style
Specifies the type of the minor tick marks. - Transparency
Specifies the transparency for the color of the minor tick marks. - Thickness
Specifies the thickness of the minor tick marks, in inches.
- Color
- Tick Mark Length
Specifies the length of the minor tick marks, in inches.
Font
Specifies the font format for text in the major tick mark labels on the axis.
Font
Specifies the font face of the label text.
Size
Specifies the font size of the label text.
Fill Type
Specifies the fill type of the label text. It can be one of the following: None, Color, Texture and Gradient.
Color
Specifies the color of the label text. It takes effect only when Fill Type in this tab is Color.
Transparency
Specifies the color transparency of the label text.
Font Style
Specifies the font style of the text. It can be one of the following: Plain, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic.
Orientation
Specifies the rotation angle of the major tick mark labels on the axis.
Automatic
Specifies whether to adjust the rotation angle of the label text on the axis automatically according to the length of the label text, in degrees.
When this option is checked by default:
- If the text can be completely displayed horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 0.
- If the text cannot be completely displayed horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 30 anticlockwise, and the cut off part will be shown as suspension points.
Angle
Specifies to customize the rotation angle of the label text on the axis.
Format
Specifies the data format of the major tick mark labels on the axis.
Category
Lists the category types. Select one to customize its format.
Format
Displays all the formats of the selected category. Select the required one and select Add to add it as the format of the specified category. You can add only one format for each category.
Properties
Displays the properties of the format you select. If the formats listed in the Format box cannot meet your requirement, define the format in the text box and then select Add to add it as the format of the specified category.
Auto Scale in Number
Specifies whether to automatically scale the major tick mark labels that are of the Number data type when the label values fall into the two ranges:
- When 1000 <= value < 10^15, the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units are used to scale the values: K (10^3), M (10^6), G (10^9), and T (10^12).
- When 0 < value < 0.001 or value >= 10^15, scientific notation is used to scale the values.
By default it is set to auto which means that the setting follows that of the chart. When it is true, the specified format applies to the integer part of the values after scaled, but if the specified format conflicts with Auto Scale in Number, for example, the values are displayed in percentage, then the Auto Scale in Number setting is ignored.
Sample
Displays the selected format effects.
Stack
Lists all the formats you select from different categories.
Add
Adds a format to the Stack list box.
Remove
Removes a format from the Stack list box.
Apply
Applies the specified format in the Stack list box to the major tick mark labels.