How to Change the Legend Position in Excel Office 365 ~ Easy Guide!!
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Published: 2021-01-18 04:01:17

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title: How to Change the Legend Position in Excel Office 365 ~ Easy Guide!!
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date: 2021-01-11 04:40:19 UTC
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The **Legend** is a side **section** of the chart that gives a **small**   **text description** of each series. You can specify the text associated with the series in the legend, and specify where on the chart it should appear. Let’s see the steps to **change the legend position in Excel**. Get an official version of ** MS Excel**  from the following link: [https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/excel](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/excel)
## Steps to change the legend position:

Please do the following steps to change the legend position in Excel **[Chart](https://geekexcel.com/change-chart-type-excel/)**.

- First, you need to create the chart as per your input data.

![Create a chart](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Create-a-chart-2.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-20788">Create a chart</figcaption>

- Then, click anywhere in the chart you can see the **“Chart Element”** button on the right of the chart.

![Click Chart Element](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Click-chart-elements.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-20790">Click Chart Element</figcaption>

- You need to click the Chart Element section, it will expand the list.

![Options](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Options.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-20791">Options</figcaption>

- You need to check **“Legend”** from the list and move your cursor to the triangle on the right side of the legend.
- Here, you can see the legend position option as per the below image.
- Now, you can select any options which you want from the pop-up list.

![Change legend](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Change-legend.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-20792">Change legend</figcaption>

- For Example, we will select the right-side legend.
- It will change the legend position as per your selection.

![Result](https://eadn-wc04-371788.nxedge.io/cdn/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Result-9.png)<figcaption id="caption-attachment-20793">Result</figcaption>

## Closure:

In this way, you have learned the simple steps to **change the position on the legend in Excel Chart**. Hope you like it. Found something that we’ve not covered? Stuck on something? Feel free to share in the below **comment** section. Thank you!! Click here to know more about **[Geek Excel](https://geekexcel.com/)**[.](https://geekexcel.com/)

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