# Easy chart pen name width

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-name-width/9001>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-name-width/9001 "2014-09-04T17:06:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![AJBerera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AJBerera](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AJBerera)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-name-width/9001/1 "2014-09-04T17:06:12Z")

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Can I change the width of this area so my text can be fully displayed?  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/f/2f0984456f8dd47c5beb0a68b72c3d6cf62ef2aa.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![cbabb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/cbabb/32/49029_2.png) [@cbabb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cbabb)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/easy-chart-pen-name-width/9001/2 "2014-09-05T14:32:44Z")

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Here’s what I did to take care of that problem…

I have pen 001 on all of my charts… it sets the minimum width of the text area  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/db07524d3d155332dcdf67d68d271da1b601c68b.PNG)