SSAS2008 r2 and Excel Line Chart and Date Axis

Hi
Excel 2010. SSAS 2008 R2
I have a excel line chart made out from SSAS pivot table with a date dimension (date) and No of licences.
Currently, it displays 1/Jun/2014 to 30/Jun/2015 (FY2015) and this looks really ugly.
While keeping the details, I'd like to display by Month-Year.
However, while I can do this with other normal excel data, I just can not do it with SSAS Pivot table.
Under Axis options, I ticked 'Date axis' but it won't bring up date options.
I think I tried everything but just can not figure it out. I wonder if it is even possible.
Th date dimension is recognised as date because I can apply date filter. I want to make it neat. Can anyone help me with this please?
It must be 'Date' Level.
Kind regards

Hi SQLMa,
Could you please elaborate more detail regarding the "Date" dimension structure? In order to display the date format with Month-Year, we should build a hierarchy to organize the granularity of date dimension at SSAS level. Please
refer to the documents below:
Create a Date type Dimension:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174884.aspx
Modifying the Date Dimension:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166578.aspx
Regards,
Elvis Long
TechNet Community Support

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