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Ensuring Data Label Visibility on Bar Charts

Erik Svensen figures out a way:

Power BI has 5 different ways of positioning data labels in a bar chart – Auto, Inside end, Outside end, Inside center and inside base.

Depending on the distribution of your data this can lead to labels are being hidden, cut off or positioned a way that looks strange for the user.

Read on for a clever solution to a weakness in Power BI’s formatting capabilities.