Learn how to add a legend to a chart, retrieve a missing legend, and adjust its settings. Add, edit, or remove a chart legend in Excel.

Steps for adding and changing the look of a chart legend in Office 2016 for Windows, including customizing the border, the background of the chart legend, and changing and resizing the …

To add a new legend entry, type the reference to the worksheet cell or type a new name and then, in the Series values box, type a reference to the data series on the worksheet that you want to …

You can hide or show the legend of a chart. You can also show a data table for a line chart, area chart, column chart, or bar chart.

Change or create legend names for an Excel chart by editing the legend name cells or using the Select Data option.

You should see the Format Object Task Pane on the right-hand side of the Excel window. If the Series Options aren't already displayed, then click the Series Option expander button on the …

(This procedure only works in Excel) To keep the text in the source data on the worksheet the way it is, and just create custom labels in the chart, you can enter new label text that's independent …

You can configure the display of information in a Legend shape in two ways. You can edit and format text directly in the Legend shape, and you can use the Configure Legend dialog box to …

To quickly identify a data series in a chart, you can add data labels to the data points of the chart. By default, the data labels are linked to values on the worksheet, and they update …

To make a chart easier to understand, you can add chart titles and axis titles, to any type of chart in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word.