The legend in an Excel chart is selected, and the Format Legend options are displayed in the Format Chart Pane. Excel's chart formatting options, represented by four icons.

Excel automatically inserts a legend with default formatting at your selected location in the chart. You can then format the legend's font and change its location via the Legend Options panel.

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

An Excel chart's legend identifies its data series markers. For example, if a chart compares several products' sales, colored lines track each product. The legend contains colored lines as well ...

2. Move The Legend. I don’t know why Excel positions the legend to the right of a chart by default. In most cases, it’s terribly awkward. I prefer to move the legend to the top or bottom of a ...

You could leave the chart as is, as a combo chart, as shown in Figure D, but let’s remove the lines so it’s strictly a floating bar chart. Figure D To finish the Excel chart, delete the lines.

Excel has 16 chart designs with several models in each design, plus a dozen or so styles, ... Gridlines, the Legend, and a Trend line (with several options under each element). ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over three of them here and talk about how they could be used with your data. ... Chart Title, Data Labels, or Legend.

Learn how to ignore zero values in Excel charts with step-by-step tips to create clean, ... There are seven slices but eight items in the legend. The pie chart plots zero by default.

You’ll now have an Excel bar chart that lists your tasks and dates—in reverse order. (Don’t worry; we’ll fix that in a minute.) Step 5: Transform Into a Gantt Chart ...

When plotted on an Excel Scatter Chart, these data points will form a total of four circles, effectively converting a scatter chart into a bull’s-eye chart. Your updated table containing the ...