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How to Label a Legend in Google Sheets
Learn to configure the text in a legend in a few steps
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Sheets is Google’s alternative to Microsoft Excel. The Sheets web app is freely available to all Google account users.
Although it might lack some of Excel’s features, Sheets is still a pretty good alternative.
Like allspreadsheetapplications, Sheets enable users to set upchartsfor data entered. To make Sheets graphs clear, you must add legend labels to them. The legends will show what data the graphs display.
Read on to find out how to add text to a legend in Google Sheets.
How can I label legends in Google Sheets?
1. Add a label legend
2. Add and edit text in a Google Sheets legend
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Double-click a label on the chart that you want to change and go to theCustomisetab.
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Navigate to theLegendsection.
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You can select an alternative font, as well as a different font size for the labels by clicking on the drop-down menu beneathLegend font.
4.Double-clicking a legend label a second time will open a small text box with which you can change the label’s text.
5.Click theBandIbuttons in theText stylebox to apply bold and italic formatting for all the labels.
- Press on theText colorbox to choose an alternative text color.
You can manually fully edit the text in a Google Sheets legend. Its font size, font type, color and formatting can be easily modified via the built-inChart editor.
3. Edit the legend labels’ positioning
So, that’s you can add and edit label legends in Googlespreadsheetgraphs. The data labels those legends display are essential tocharts.
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