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Andy Pope
 
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Default Column Chart - X axis too thin because of MANY categories.

Hi,

Scrolling the pivot chart will be. But you could create your own chart
based on the pivot table which can be scrolled.
You need to create a dynamic chart using named ranges. Here is a
collection of links on the topic.
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/...hartLinks.html

And I have a scrolling example here
http://www.andypope.info/charts/Scrolling.htm

Cheers
Andy

Mike wrote:
Hmmm, no replies. Maybe I posted in an inappropriate forum?


Mike wrote:

I'm brand new to Pivot Charts and trying to figure out what I thought
would be simple: I have a Column Chart with $Sales for the Y axis and
Salesperson on the X(category) axis. There are hundreds of
salespeople, which results in the chart displaying extremely thin lines
with totally unreadable category labels( salesperson initials). Is
there not a way to specifiy a gap between categories on the X axis? Or
some way to space them apart and be able to scroll the chart
horizontally? I have a feeling you are all going to tell me scrolling
is just a dream :)

TIA,

-Mike




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