Probably the reason you got no answers is that no-one knew an easy solution.
I have seen similar questions several times, but have not seen a good
solution.
What I have ended up doing in this case is pasting a table on its side to
make it appear as a catagory list. This is definately not convenient.
I have also used a secondary axis and set it up to print every other label
on each.
formating was an issue

"Richard" wrote:

Hi

I have posted this problem before as Dynamic Bar Chart Category Axis
Problem, but the search engine wouldn't pick it up and I'm assuming that's
why I got no response. So here goes again....

I have created a dynamic bar chart (roughly based on Stephen Bullen's
funchrt4). The number of categories can range from 2 to about 50 and ideally
I
would like the category axis names font to be Arial 10 at least.
When the number of categories gets towards 50, the category axis names
disappear altogether and the only way I have found to retrieve them is to
manually reduce the font size to about 7 (dependent on the level of the
zoom). This font size is excessively small for the majority of charts.
Is there any way to get Excel2002 to keep the category axis names in all
circumstances without reducing them all to a very small font size?

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Thanks

Richard