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Format Value (Y) Axis Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Format Value (Y) Axis dialog box to format the value (Y) axis of a chart. Server displays the dialog box 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.

This topic contains the following sections:

• Axis Tab Properties
• Tick Mark Tab Properties
• Font Tab Properties
• Orientation Tab Properties
• Format Tab Properties

You see these elements on all the tabs:

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Cancel

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Axis Tab Properties

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.

Line

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.

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Tick Mark Tab Properties

The tab consists of two sub tabs:

• Major Tick Mark
• Minor Tick Mark

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 the option is selected, 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.
• 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 the option is selected, 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 the option is selected, all major tick mark labels will be shown.
  • Fixed
    If the option is selected, you can specify the number of the major tick mark labels to be displayed on the axis.

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 the option is selected, 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.
• Tick Mark Length
  Specifies the length of the minor tick marks, in inches.

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Font Tab Properties

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.

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Orientation Tab Properties

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.

• If the text can completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 0.
• If the text cannot completely display horizontally, the default rotation angle will be 30 anticlockwise. Server displays an ellipsis (…) from the right side of the label, along with part of the name instead of the entire name.

Angle

Specifies to customize the rotation angle of the label text on the axis.

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Format Tab Properties

Specifies the data format of the major tick mark labels on the axis. See Format.

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