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Bar Chart Widgets

Use the Bar Chart widget to display a bar chart. Bar charts are useful when you want to compare multiple values from the same data channel. Each bar in a bar chart corresponds to a field in the data received over the associated data channel.

The Data Field and the Chart Colors properties refer to the bars using a numbering scheme. Bar number 1 is the leftmost bar with numbering continuing to the right:

Bar numbering in a bar chart

For details on how to set the colors of the individual bars, see Chart Colors.

To make room for larger labels, you can rotate the bar chart labels in Visio.

The Angle property in Visio determines the orientation of the label. A default bar chart label has a start angle of 0 (zero). To rotate the labels, set the angle of the first label to the angle at which you want all labels to appear. You can do this either by clicking on the label and rotating it or by changing the value of the label's Angle property:
Access the tab View. Click Task Panes > Size & Position. Click on the first label of the bar chart and adjust the Angle property.

For example, to rotate the labels of the following bar chart, set the angle of the first label to -45 degrees. As a result, all other labels will be rotated to the same degree in BVD.

All labels rotated at the same degree.

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