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scotthan
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

How do I center a horizontal legend?

I have a bar chart and I have done ctrl+shift to drag the legend to the bottom, which flips it horizontal. However, it defaults to a left-aligned legend which looks weird on my wide chart. How do I center this horizontal legend when the only option I see in legend settings is vertical alignment?

Thanks!

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andreypico
Contributor III
Contributor III

Hi. Try on this properties

Properties->Presentation->Setings ... (Legend)

scotthan
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III
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I looked at that, but it only has a vertical alignment and no horizontal alignment selector. When I switch to horizontal legend, I can't find a setting that lets me move the legend to the center of the chart horizontally.

Anonymous
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Scotthan,

Select the chart and use CTRL+SHIFT key and move the Legend from left to center in the chart.

Rgds,

Nandha

jamesdmilne
Contributor II
Contributor II

I was searching for an answer to this same question.  It's an old post but it has a lot of views, so I've decided to provide a solution that worked for my purposes.

If you are using multiple expressions in a line or combo chart where zero appears on the axis, you can insert an additional expression in the first position with a Definition of 0 (zero), and a label of '                             ·' (some number of spaced followed at the end by a "Middle Dot").   You will have to play with the number of spaces.

This is definitely a work around waiting for a UI enhancement,


Regards,

James

jamesdmilne
Contributor II
Contributor II

... forgot to mention that you need to set the background color for the placeholder expression to White() or a color that matches your background.  If you don't want the dot to appear in the legend try using a supported non-white space Unicode characters starting at U+2000.

James