Excel: Legend Order in Stacked Bar/Column Chart Reversed

Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
Article ID: Q47574

SUMMARY

When you create a stacked bar or column chart in Microsoft Excel versions 1.50 and 2.20 and add a legend, the order of the series in the legend is reversed: the last series appears at the top of the legend, and the first series appears at the bottom.

This feature is by design and is intended to display the order in which the series would appear in a stacked column chart.

In a column chart, the first series appears on the bottom, so the legend also displays the first series on the bottom. However, this effect carries over to a stacked bar chart, and may not be desirable as the chart grows from left to right; horizontally positioning the legend would display the series from right to left.

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Additional reference words: 1.50 2.20

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Last reviewed: October 31, 1994
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