Charts - Legend Properties

Advanced chart legend formatting options

Chart Legend Properties

To access this dialog:

  • In the Histogram or Scatter Plot dialog, ensure that the Show Toolbar checkbox (bottom left corner of dialog) is ticked.

  • Select a chart from the chart thumbnails pane, click the Chart Legend icon (i.e. toggle on), double-click a legend item's label.

The Legend Properties dialog is used to format the histogram or scatter plot chart legend.

This dialog contains the following tabs:

  • Border: edit the border of the chart items, including line style, color and thickness.

  • Misc: set background color, alignment, shadow, orientation and position parameters.

  • Title: define title text, alignment and color settings.

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  • click the '+' to the left of each item in order to display additional parameters

  • If multiple charts have been generated according to the initial data selection, the scope of this operation will be applied to the entire chart- however - if a compound chart has been created, you can edit each of the data series that comprise that chart independently.
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