How To Change the Axis Label Font and the Font Size in MSChart (277712)

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Step-by-Step Example

1. Open a new Standard EXE project in Visual Basic 6.0. Form1 is created by default.
2. On the Project menu, select Components to bring up the Components dialog box. Check Microsoft Chart Control, and then click OK.
3. Add a CommandButton control and an MSChart control to Form1.
4. Add the following code to the code window of Form1

   Private Sub Command1_Click()
       ' Note that MSChart20Lib is for Visual Basic 6.0
       ' it should be MSChartLib in Visual Basic 5.0
       Dim currentaxis As MSChart20Lib.Axis
       Dim currentlabel As MSChart20Lib.Label
       ' Get a reference to the x axis
       Set currentaxis = MSChart1.Plot.Axis(VtChAxisIdX)
       ' Loop though and set the font of each label
       For Each currentlabel In currentaxis.Labels
           currentlabel.VtFont.Name = "Courier"
           currentlabel.VtFont.Size = 16
       Next currentlabel
       ' get a reference to the y axis
       Set currentaxis = MSChart1.Plot.Axis(VtChAxisIdY)
       ' loop through and set the font of each label
       For Each currentlabel In currentaxis.Labels
           currentlabel.VtFont.Name = "Courier"
           currentlabel.VtFont.Size = 16
       Next currentlabel
   End Sub
   					

5. Run the project, and note the font for the axis labels.
6. Click on Command1, and note that the font changes.