Format Legend dialog

This dialog helps you to format the legend of a chart. It contains the following tabs:

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the chart legend. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the chart legend, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the legend.

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the chart legend. Available only when the Placement option in the Placement tab is set to auto.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the chart legend. Available only when the Placement option in the Placement tab is set to auto.

Width

Specifies the width of the chart legend. Available only when the Placement option in the Placement tab is set to auto.

Height

Specifies the height of the chart legend. Available only when the Placement option in the Placement tab is set to auto.

Fill Type

Specifies the type for filling the chart legend.

Color

Indicates the background color of the chart legend.

To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog, and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the legend background.

Show Value

Specifies whether to show the value of each legend.

Show Percent

Specifies whether to show the percentage of each legend.

Show Tips

Specifies whether to show the corresponding data information when the mouse pointer points at a target in the chart legend.

Placement tab

This tab shows the position-related information of the chart legend. See the tab.

Placement

Specifies the position of the legend in the platform. It can be auto, bottom, left, right or top.

Secondary Placement

Specifies the position of the legend on the basis of the Placement property.

Label Vertical Spacing

Specifies the vertical distance between two adjacent legend labels.

Label Horizontal Spacing

Specifies the horizontal distance between two adjacent legend labels.

Top Margin

Specifies the distance between the legend labels and the top border of the legend.

Bottom Margin

Specifies the distance between the legend labels and the bottom border of the legend.

Left Margin

Specifies the distance between the legend labels and the left border of the legend.

Right Margin

Specifies the distance between the legend labels and the right border of the legend.

Reverse Labels

Specifies whether or not to arrange the legend labels in a reverse order.

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the chart legend. See the tab.

Line Style

Specifies the line style of the legend borders.

Border Type

Specifies the type of the legend borders.

Color

Specifies the color of the legend borders.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the legend borders.

Thickness

Specifies the thickness of the legend borders.

Font tab

This tab shows the font-related information of the chart legend. See the tab.

Font

Specifies the font face of the legend labels.

Size

Specifies the font size of the legend labels.

Fill Type

Specifies the fill type of the legend labels.

Color

Specifies the color of the legend labels.

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the legend labels.

Font Style

Specifies the font style of the legend labels.

Font Effect

Specifies the font effect of the legend labels.

Font Underline

Specifies the style of the line under the legend labels.

Font Strikeout

Specifies whether or not to attach a strikeout line to the legend labels.

Font Rotation

Specifies the rotation angle of each legend label around its center, in degrees.

Font Shearing

Specifies the shearing transformation of each legend label around its center, in degrees.

Word Wrap

Specifies whether or not to enable word wrapping for the label text.