One quick correction though if I may; you said above “You cannot select the legend entry [did you mean key?] in a chart in Excel 2007.” This is not quite true. Yes, it looks like you can only select the legend entry text, but if you right-click and format it, setting the fill or border colours will change the associated series in the plot – just like when you select the legend entry key in Excel 2003.

I stumbled in here looking for how to format the selected legend entry with VBA. Once I figured out that formatting the fill and line of the legned entry actually formats the series, I thought I was home and dry, but now I’m stuck on the legend entry font. I fear there really is no way to determine legend position, i.e. the X in cht.Legend.LegendEntries(X), if I know the Y in seriescollection(Y)… not without coding all the legend order “logic” you so skillfully explained (at http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/order-of-legend-entries-in-excel-charts/).

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Rich
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This sometimes happens if you create your chart, remove a series low in the plot order, and add another series.

Say I start with 4 series, all automatically formatted:

A B C D

I remove a series:

A C D

I add a new series:

A C D E

Even though the series are in the plot order above, their order among the automatic formatting series is:

A E C D

because E is given the first available automatic format, which had been taken by B.

If you then make another chart with A C D E, the auto formatting will be different.

The remedy? Copy one of the matching charts, and replace its value with that from the unmatched chart.

quick question on legends for stacked graphs. i have several graphs (one for ea. dept.) that use identical data points (i.e., x and y axis are identical, note, different data but exact same format).

the legend colors for each of the graphs are identical except for one. the legend selection is set on automatic for legend fill for all. how do i change that one graph so the legend colors match the others. thanks

In a pie chart, the legend labels are the category labels The easiest and most reliable way to set up data for a chart is to put category labels (or X values) in a column and (Y) values in the next column, then put a label in the cell above every value column (a pie chart has one value column) and leave the cell above the category labels blank. Then select this range and make your chart. Excel figures out where within your data the category labels, series names (the labels above the values), and values are located.