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Hi Folks,
In a multi line data lable the text is centered, is there any reasonableway to left align it?
I realize one can type the data label text manually following it with characters which you then turn white, for example
You can enter some dummy characters as below and then you can highlight the dummy characters and set their font to whie. I don't consider this reasonable.
| Sept 2001 YTD <br><br>Brazil -------------- <br><br>34.56 -------------- <br><br>5% ------------------ |
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| Sept 2001 YTD <br><br>Brazil <br><br>34.56 <br><br>5% |
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TIA,
Shane
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As far as I can tell, it's not possible to set the alignment in the interface.
Answer accepted by question author
If you mean the data labels of a chart series: set its HorizontalAlignment property to xlLeft:
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).DataLabels.HorizontalAlignment = xlLeft
If you mean the tickmark labels of the category axis, I don't see an elegant way to force left aligned text: the Alignment property of the TickLabels object determines where the label is displayed within the category; it doesn't afffect the text alignment.
Hi,
I can program it, but can it be set manually in 2010.
TIA,
Shane