{"id":527,"date":"2026-04-01T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:07:26","slug":"how-to-set-axis-using-xlwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/how-to-set-axis-using-xlwings\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Set Axis Using xlwings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3010<b>Method<\/b>\u3011<\/p>\n<p>The Border property returns the axis&#8217;s border properties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ColorIndex property<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Weight property<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; DashStyle property<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>sht.api.Range(&#8220;A1:B7&#8221;).Select()\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Data<\/p>\n<p>cht=sht.api.Shapes.AddChart().Chart\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Add chart<\/p>\n<p>axs=cht.Axes(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Horizontal axis<\/p>\n<p>axs.Border.ColorIndex=3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Red<\/p>\n<p>axs.Border.Weight=3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Line width<\/p>\n<p>axs.HasMinorGridlines=True\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Show minor gridlines<\/p>\n<p>axs2=cht.Axes(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Vertical axis<\/p>\n<p>axs2.Border.Color=xw.utils.rgb_to_int((0,0,255))\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Blue<\/p>\n<p>axs2.Border.Weight=3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Line width<\/p>\n<p>axs2.HasMinorGridlines=True\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 #Show minor gridlines<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u3010<b>Example<\/b>\u3011<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-01.jpg 880w, https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-01-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-01-768x670.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3010<strong>Code<\/strong>\u3011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>#Axis Settings\n\nimport xlwings as xw\nimport os\n\nroot = os.getcwd()\napp = xw.App(visible=True, add_book=False)\nwb=app.books.open(root+r\"\/P1P2.xlsx\",read_only=False)\nsht=wb.sheets(1)\n\nsht.api.Range(\"A1:B7\").Select()    #Data\ncht=sht.api.Shapes.AddChart().Chart    #Add chart\naxs=cht.Axes(1)    #Horizontal axis\naxs.Border.ColorIndex=3    #Red\naxs.Border.Weight=3    #Line width\naxs.HasMinorGridlines=True    #Show minor gridlines\naxs2=cht.Axes(2)    #Vertical axis\naxs2.Border.Color=xw.utils.rgb_to_int((0,0,255))    #Blue\naxs2.Border.Weight=3    #Line width\naxs2.HasMinorGridlines=True    #Show minor gridlines\n\n#wb.save()\n#wb.close()\n#app.kill()<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-14.jpg 880w, https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-14-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-14-768x660.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xlwings-chart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xlwings.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}