Click one of those colors, and Excel applies it to the legend instantly. This flexibility gives you the ability to see how different legend colors look in relation to existing chart elements.

A legend box in an Excel chart lists the chart's data series. It specifies each series' name and the color of its marker on the chart. When you try to edit a legend using the Format Legend dialog ...

Learn how to change, edit or rename a Data Series name in Microsoft Excel Graph or Chart without editing the original row or column name.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.