### Format Legend dialog

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:

- General tab
- Placement tab
- Border tab
- Font tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

#### General tab

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.

Show NLS Value

Specifies to show the translated name of the display name of the chart legend in the Name text box if you have enabled the NLS feature and translated it.

If checked, this option takes effect only when the display name of the chart legend is not modified.

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.

#### Placement tab

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.

#### Border tab

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.

#### Font tab

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.