Chart Axes: Changing Axis Labels in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, posted by Geetesh at 12:33 pm

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Axis labels, as the name suggests are labels for categories and values on your chart axes. Category names show as labels on the category axis. Similarly, values show as labels on the value axis. If you have a depth (series) axis in your chart, then series names show up as the labels on this axis.

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Microsoft Windows

Changing Axis Labels in PowerPoint 2013

Changing Axis Labels in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Changing Axis Labels in PowerPoint 2011

Changing Axis Labels in PowerPoint

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