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TickLabels.Offset Property

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Excel Developer Reference

Returns or sets a Long value that represents the distance between the levels of labels, and the distance between the first level and the axis line.

Syntax

expression.Offset

expression   A variable that represents a TickLabels object.

Remarks

The default distance is 100 percent, which represents the default spacing between the axis labels and the axis line. The value can be an integer percentage from 0 through 1000, relative to the axis label’s font size.

Example

This example sets the label spacing of the category axis in Chart1 to twice the current setting, if the offset is less than 500.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Charts("Chart1").Axes(xlCategory).TickLabels
    If .Offset < 500 then
        .Offset = .Offset * 2
    End If
End With

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