How to colntrol location of category X axis labels on a bar chart?

[Naum]

How to colntrol location of category X axis labels on a bar chart?

usually data have only positive values, category X axis labels are in the
left side of vertical axis (see labelsOK.jpg). When values are all negative,
labels are crossing bars (see labels03.jpg). Basically labels are always to
the left from vertical axis (see labels01.jpg and labels02.jpg) which is not
always visually appealing. Is there a way to have labels for case when data
are all negative, located to the right from the axis and axis itself indented
from chart border, so it will be a mirror image of labelsOK.jpg (see
labelsOKmirror.jpg, but of course text and digits should not be mirrored!).

I do not see how to upload images, would happy to email them to whoever will
be kind enough to ask ([email protected])
for now I put them on a website

http://spbdev.sprigley.com/labels01.jpg
http://spbdev.sprigley.com/labels02.jpg
http://spbdev.sprigley.com/labels03.jpg
http://spbdev.sprigley.com/labelsOK.jpg
http://spbdev.sprigley.com/labelsOKmirror.jpg

Thank you!

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

The same approach is valid for bar charts
http://www.andypope.info/tips/tip002.htm

Cheers
Andy

 

[Bob Phillips]

Not sure I fully understand, but couldn't you have a helper column and just
take the absolute value of your real values and chart them?

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Naum]

no, I have 33 bar charts, they reflect rows on a data worksheet where data is
pasted - different every time, it is not going to fly with my users to build
bar charts manually...
Andy's solution seems to be working great (choose "Low" for "Tick mark
labels" for Value axis - even if I do not understand it

 

[Naum]

Andy, you did it again!! "Low" works good enough.

Thanks!