Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Doubled bar chart labels in Excel

The following bar chart was published on the BBC website

























Not withstanding the somewhat gruesome subject matter, my interest was caught by the labelling of the categories. The labels had both the location and the year, with the year in bold and on a second line.

I wondered whether it was possible to achieve this effect using Excel

Forcing the year onto a fresh line can be achieved by inserting a "hard" carriage return. (ALT and ENTER keys at the same time)

Jon Peltier provides a method of adding and then formatting the category labels using a second (dummy) data series. https://peltiertech.com/individual-format-category-axis-labels/. The alignment of the labels can be set to right




I have not yet found a way to selectively apply Bold formatting to the text in the label



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