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Example of graph legend. Adding Simple Legend to Plot. You can alter the x-axis using the xlim parameter which allows you to place the legend at the right. Example 1 Work with Default Legends in Excel Charts.

By default it may show on the bottom or right side of the chart. This is the data that comes from the columns of the corresponding grid report and usually represents metrics. The legend identifies the visual elements used to distinguish different groups of data on the graph.

A chart can be missing a legend if it has been manually removed from the chart but you can retrieve the missing legend. The following graph is the same as in the previous example except that the location of the legend is inside the graph area and the position of the legend is in the lower-right corner. Note that the argument is a list of legends.

Each legend key. The following is an example using stock data and positioning the legend at the top of the chart. Ggp Move legend to the top theme legendposition top.

Mycols c tan orange1 magenta cyan red sandybrown barplot bf beside TRUE col mycols legend TRUE xlim c 0 45 Note that the xlim parameter in this example. We can also turn the chart legend off like the previous examples or position the legend. Rather than use Excels default symbols.

When you move the legend to the left or right side of the graph it is often useful to use the ACROSS1 option to force the legend to list the items vertically. Whenever you create a chart in Excel a legend for the chart is automatically generated at the same time. The box contains small samples of each color on the graph as well as a short description of what each color means.