This dialog appears when you right-click a chart and select Format Legend (unavailable to org chart) from the shortcut menu. This dialog helps you to format the legend of the chart and 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.
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.
Width
Specifies the width of the chart legend.
Height
Specifies the height of the chart legend.
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 select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range 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.
Show Scrollbar
Specifies whether to show a scrollbar on the legend to fully view the legend content when the content does not fit into the legend.
Truncate
Specifies whether to truncate the legend entry label text when the text overflow the labels.
This tab shows the position-related information of the chart legend. See the tab.
Placement
Specifies the position of the legend in the platform.
Secondary Placement
Specifies the position of the legend on the basis of the Placement property.
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.
Label Vertical Spacing
Specifies the vertical distance between two adjacent legend labels.
Label Horizontal Spacing
Specifies the horizontal distance between two adjacent legend labels.
Reverse Labels
Specifies whether or not to arrange the legend labels in a reverse order.
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.
This tab shows the font-related information of the chart legend. See the tab.
Font
Specifies the font face for the legend labels.
Size
Specifies the font size for the legend labels.
Fill Type
Specifies the fill type for the legend labels.
Color
Specifies the color for the legend labels.
Transparency
Specifies the transparency for the legend labels, in percent.
Font Style
Specifies the font style of the text. It can be one of the following: Plain, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic.
Font Rotation
Specifies the rotation angle of each legend label around its center, in degrees.
Word Wrap
Specifies whether or not to enable word wrapping for the label text.
