How to rotate axis labels in chart in Excel?
Sometimes, the axis labels in chart are so long that the labels are huddled together as shown as below screenshot. If you do not want to resize the chart size to meet the labels, you can rotate the axis labels to show the labels clearly in Excel.
Rotate axis labels in chart
Please follow these steps:
Rotate axis labels in Excel 2007/2010
1. Right click at the axis you want to rotate its labels, select Format Axis from the context menu. See screenshot:
2. In the Format Axis dialog, click Alignment tab and go to the Text Layout section to select the direction you need from the list box of Text direction. See screenshot:
3. Close the dialog, then you can see the axis labels are rotated.
Rotate axis labels in chart of Excel 2013
If you are using Microsoft Excel 2013, you can rotate the axis labels with following steps:
1. Go to the chart and right click its axis labels you will rotate, and select the Format Axis from the context menu.
2. In the Format Axis pane in the right, click the Size & Properties button, click the Text direction box, and specify one direction from the drop down list. See screen shot below:
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