Comments on: Order of Legend Entries in Excel Charts

By: Peter Muwaswes

Peter Muwaswes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:49:32 +0000

Found a way using your related posts. Very helpful.

Pete

By: Peter Muwaswes

Peter Muwaswes — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:11:06 +0000

Very informative.

Is there anyway either (direct or rigging) to change the order of legend entries displayed in legend key?

I have graph with actuals and forecast entries for 1st 3 months displayed from left to right then just forecast entries for next 8 months and would like to display legend key with actual legend entries on left and forecast on right to match graph display.

Any insight/direction you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Pete

By: Mike Orton

Mike Orton — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:28:46 +0000

Great explanation, shame the Microsoft documentation didn’t cover this, but more of a shame that the programmers thought this was an acceptable solution – renders Excel Charting totally useless for my purposes!
Thanks again.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:13:53 +0000

Marvin -

That URL only links to an image file, so I’ve stored the image on my host server. If that messes up how copygator works, I’ll hose that altogether.

By: Marvin Woods

Marvin Woods — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:58:34 +0000

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I don’t know if others are getting this as well, and I don’t know if there’s anything that you can do (or care to do) about it, but I thought you might like to know that it may prove to be a significant issue to some people (such as me).

Cheers

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:37:31 +0000

John -

Good job. Just because it doesn’t seem like Excel can do something, doesn’t mean you should stop trying to think of other ways to do it. I like your phrase “phantom series” better than the “dummy series” I’ve been using all along. I might have to adopt it as my own.