Legend Properties dialog box

The Legend Properties dialog box allows you to change how your legend appears on your chart. You can change the legend border, choose a legend color, and make the background transparent. You can also change the display of the data series from this dialog box.

Display Legend

Enable to display a legend beside your chart.

Display Border

Enable to display a border around the chart legend.

Legend Border: Thickness

Specifies the thickness of the border around the chart legend.

Legend Border: Color

Displays a color palette, where you can choose a color for the border around the legend.

Legend Fill: Color

Displays a color palette, where you can choose a fill color for the legend background.

Transparent Background

Enable to make the background of the legend transparent.

Reverse Series Order

Enable to reverse the order of the data in your chart. If Series A in your spreadsheet data is 2, 4, 6, 8, it will appear on your chart as 8, 6, 4, 2.