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ordnance1

Copper Contributor

Jul 02, 2020

Modern Charts

Is there a reason that charting in Access can not be on par with Excel.

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Karl_Donaubauer

MVP

Aug 23, 2022

Hi,

As people see that the announced enhancements of modern Access charts do not happen for years, alternatives are being worked on. Daniel has already mentioned one in 2020: The integration of really modern and powerful Javascript frameworks.

Thomas Moeller offers it for free not only for static charts, but in his new project also for pivot charts. See my interview with him and the links to his projects below the video on Youtube.

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Simon_dAspley

Copper Contributor

Aug 24, 2022

Hi Karl_Donaubauer,

Thanks for this. I have been exploring Thomas' Better Access Charts. They're excellent, but sadly miss the settings necessary for changing the font sizes on the axes. I've played with the code (as suggested by Thomas) but it's complicated. I have no experience of Chart JS, or any JS, for that matter... so it's been a steep learning curve.

Our preference would have been Microsoft just restoring (and updating) the pivot and charting functions... but alas, no hope of that.

Thank you for the suggestion though.