Populating the legend

Use the Populate Legend window to populate your legend with entries for items that exist on your chart. You can select which item types are added. If a legend exists for the chart, you can also specify how any new entries are added.

Procedure

  1. To open the Edit Legend window, click the Publish tab, and then in the Prepare group, click Legend. If your chart does not currently contain a legend, the Legend Population Option window is displayed.
  2. Select the Items page on the Edit Legend window.
  3. In the Add Entries For area, select the appropriate check boxes to select entry types you want included in the legend.
  4. In the Action area, select the appropriate option to specify how new entries are added to an existing legend.
    Replace Existing Deletes all of the existing entries in the legend before populating it
    Append to Existing Adds the new entries to the entries already in the legend even if the legend already contains identical entries
    Merge with Existing Merges the new entries with the entries already in the legend
  5. Click OK to populate the legend with entries for the chart items, by using the options specified.