How to format axis labels as thousands/millions in Excel?
If you have a chart in Excel as below screenshot shown, and now you want to format the axis labels as thousands/millions like 100K, 1M, how can you solve it?
Format axis labels as thousands/millions
Format axis labels as thousands/millions
You can go to the Format Axis dialog to format the axis.
1. Right click at the axis you want to format its labels as thousands/millions, select Format Axis in the context menu.
2. In the Format Axis dialog/pane, click Number tab, then in the Category list box, select Custom, and type [>999999] #,,"M";#,"K" into Format Code text box, and click Add button to add it to Type list. See screenshot:
3. Close dialog, now you can see the axis labels are formatted as thousands or millions.
Tip: If you just want to format the axis labels as thousands or only millions, you can type #,"K" or #,"M" into Format Code textbox and add it.
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