You can customize the legend and its elements,
including its title, position, and items.
You can hide or show the legend
and change its position relative to the chart object, chart area,
or using a specific report expression. For example, in a bar chart
showing revenue for each product line by country or region, you could
use the expression [Country or Region] = 'Canada' to position the
legend relative to the Canada bar.
You can change the title
that appears above the legend.
If your legend includes items
that are too long, you can truncate long legend items at a specific
number of characters.
For example, if you want an ellipsis
(...) to appear at the end of each truncated legend item, type ... in
the Truncation text box.
Procedure
- Select the chart object.
- In the Properties pane, click Legend.
- To show the legend on the chart, select the Show
legend check box.
- To choose a preset legend position, click Preset and
click a position from the diagram.
Note: When
you choose a preset legend position, that position appears inside
any padding that you have added to the chart object. Customized legend
positions do not include any chart padding.
- To choose a customized legend position, do the following:
- Click Advanced and click the ellipsis (...)
button.
- To display the legend at a set distance from the sides of the
chart area, from the Anchor list, click Relative
to Chart.
- To display the legend at a set distance from the sides of the
chart body, from the Anchor list, click Relative
to Chart Body.
- To display the legend at a set distance from a report expression,
from the Anchor list, click Report
Expression, click the ellipsis (...) button beside Expression,
and enter an expression in the Report Expression dialog
box.
- Set the horizontal and vertical distances from the anchor.
- To change the text that appears as the legend title, select
the legend object, and in the Properties pane,
click Legend title and specify the title.
- To truncate the items in the legend, do the following:
- Select the legend object.
- In the Properties pane, click Text
truncation.
- To specify the number of characters at which the legend items
are truncated, click Manual and type the number
of characters in the Maximum characters box.
- To shrink the font of the legend item text until all the text
fits in the legend, select the Shrink font as needed check
box.
- To specify some text to appear at the end of truncated legend
items, type the text in the Truncation text box.
