Thanks for the responses

The 'Number of categories between tick mark labels' was set at 1.
The problem would seem to be that the amount of space for the text is
dependent on the height of the bars in the chart. More bars means smaller
bars and less space for each line of text. When the available height is too
small to fit in the font, the axis labels disappear altogether.
The solutions could be to do something along the lines that BJ had tried, to
turn off some function of Excel, or to use VBA to point to some calculated
value.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Thanks

Richard


"Jon Peltier" wrote:

If you have Excel 2000 or later, double click on the axis, and on the
scale tab, type a 1 next to 'Number of categories between tick mark labels'.

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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?