Minitab Pareto Chart Text Adjustment

[Michaelk]

I'm creating some pareto charts and the counts run into one another so they cannot be read clearly. Can anyone help me to change the font size or angle the text? I've tried selecting the the datatable but can't.

I can do it for the X and the Y just nothing in the datatable.

Thanks.

[justncredible]

I just have ver 14, but here goes.

Go to TOOLS
Go to GRAPHICS
Go to FRAM ELEMENTS
Go to SCALES
Go to FONTS

Hope that helps.

[justncredible]

You can also just click on the numbers themselves, then the font tab on far right.

[Michaelk]

Correction. Font size changes effected everything but not enough to fix the problem. I need to be able to align the numbers at an angle but can't seem to do that.

Any other thoughts?

[Tim Folkerts]

Slect the graph, then go to the menu Editor/Select Item/X Scale
Then the menu Editor/Edit X Scale
The last tab in the pop-up screen should be "alignment"

This works in Version 14



Tim Folkerts

[Allattar]

You can change the text angle for the categories as mentioned above or by doubleclicking on the names of the categories on the graph, then going to the alignment tab.

You will not be able to change the text for the numbers in counts, percentages and Cum%.

An alternative couild be to reduce the combine percentage in the dialogue box. Drop it down to 90% or 80%, it can be useful when you have a large number of categories to combine a larger amount of the smallest categories.

[Bev D]

Use EXCEL

it's just a pareto chart. why fight Minitab???

[Allattar]

Originally Posted by Bev D

Use EXCEL

it's just a pareto chart. why fight Minitab???

I have a horrible suspicion that your actually being serious there.