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Format Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI

by suresh

How to Format Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI with an example?. Formatting Power BI Stacked Bar Chart includes changing the Stacked Bar Colors, Title text, position, Data labels, Axis Fonts, and Background Colors, etc.

To demonstrate the Power BI Stacked Bar Chart formatting options, we are going to use the Stacked Bar Chart that we created earlier. Please refer to the Power BI Stacked Bar Chart article.

How to Format Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI

Please click on the Format button to see the list of formatting options that are available for this Stacked Bar Chart.

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Format Stacked Bar Chart General Section

Use this General Section to Change the X Position, Y Position, Width, and height of a Stacked Bar Chart

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Format Legend of a Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI

To display or enable the Legend, Please select the Power BI Legend region and toggle the option from Off to On. You can use the Position drop down box to change the legend position.

As you can see from the screenshot below, we added the Legend Title as Country Name, Legend Position as Top Center. Next, we also changed the  Color to Brown, Font family to Corbel, and text size to 12.

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The Y-Axis of a Power BI Stacked Bar Chart

As you can see from the screenshot below, we change the Y-Axis labels Color to Brown, Text Size to 18, Font style to Corbel. You can use Minimum category width, Maximum Size, and Inner Padding options to change the bar widths

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By default, the Y-Axis title set to Off, but you can enable it by toggling Title under the Y-Axis section to On. Let me change the Title Color to Green, Title Text Size to 30, and Font style to Cambria.

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Format X-Axis of a Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI

As you can see from the below screenshot, we change the Color to Brown, Font style to Corbel, Text Size to 20, Display Units to Thousands (default is Auto).

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By default, the X-Axis title set to Off, but you can enable it by toggling Title to On. Let me change the Title Color to Green, Font style to Cambria, and Font Size to 30.

By toggling the Gridlines option from On to Off, you can disable the Stacked Bar chart Gridlines.

  • Color: You can change the Gridlines color.
  • Stroke Width: Use this to change the Gridlines width.
  • Line Style: Choose the line style such as Solid, dotted, and dashed.
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Format Power BI Stacked Bar Chart Data Colors

By default, Power BI allocates some default colors to each bar. Let me change the Color of the United States to Pink.

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Enable Data Labels for Power BI Stacked Bar Chart

The Stacked Bar chart Data Labels display the information about each individual group of a horizontal bar. In this case, it displays the Sales Amount of each country. To enable data labels, please toggle Data labels option to On.

Let me change the Color to White, Font family to DIN, and Text Size to 10

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Format Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI Plot Area

You can add Images as the Background of a Stacked Bar Chart using this Plot Area section. For the demonstration purpose, we added one image as the Plot Area Background.

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Format Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI Title

By toggling the Title option from On to Off, you can disable the Bar Chart title.

As you can see from the screenshot below, we change the Title Text to Sale Amount by Color and Country Name. And we also changed the Font Color to Green, Font Family to Georgia, Font Size to 25, and Title Alignment to center. If you want, you can add the background color to the title as well.

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Format Background Color of a Stacked Bar Chart in Power BI

You can add the Background color to a Bar Chart by toggling Background option to On. For the demonstration purpose, we added the background color.

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Format Border of a Stacked Bar Chart

You can add Borders to a Line Chart by toggling the Border option from Off to On.

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