Can I add a title to the legend?

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Dr_Steve

I need to put a small title in the legend explaining what the variables
represent in Excel XP. However, I cannot see a way of doing this without some
severe paintshop editing. And I've got 100s of figures to do this on.

Any useful suggestions would be most welcome.

Steve
 
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Bernard Liengme

Add a text box: click on chart, drag text box from Drawing tool on to chart;
add text to box; drag box to required position
Copy box to next chart
best wishes
 
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Dr_Steve

Thanks, however I was wondering whether it is possible to edit the legend box
itself to add a title, rather than adding an additional text box onto the
chart. This would be neater and could possibly be saved as a user-defined
chart format.

I have tried to resize the legend in an attempt to insert the text box above
the first legend entry, however Excel distributes the entries evenly,
rendering this useless.

Steve
 
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Andy Pope

Hi,

The only way to add text to the legend would be via a dummy data series.
This series could then have it's fill and border colours set to none.

Cheers
Andy
 

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