The Swap Axis utility is enabled only for normal KPIs and remains disabled for crosstab KPIs. This is the reason, you cannot access Swap Axis utility for crosstab KPIs.
The 'Show/Hide column' utility is used to enable/disable the measure columns that are used in the KPI. This utility comes in handy at the time of analysis and it is applicable only during run time
Security privileges are not applicable for the users with Admin privileges. The Swap Axis utility is disabled for cross tab KPIs and drill down KPIs. Only the normal KPIs have this feature.
The 'Swap Axis' utility is enabled for normal KPIs and disabled for Cross-tab and Drill-down KPIs. So this utility does not work for Cross-tab and Drill-down KPIs.