Chart2/Legend

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This list is based primarily on the List of wished enhancements for Charts.

Contents 1 Resize legend and ability to put the series on only one line 2 Legend direction 3 Delete series from the legend 4 Add a shadow to value the legend 5 Modify the text of the legend 6 Force a line break in legend text 7 Split Legend into more parts 8 Highlight individual Legend entries 9 Ability to Import/Save such Legend Styles

Resize legend and ability to put the series on only one line

• Set on how many lines the parts will be organized.
• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28670

Legend direction

• Ability to change legend direction
• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64696

Delete series from the legend

• To ease readability when the legend is not necessary
• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9885

Add a shadow to value the legend

• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64698

Modify the text of the legend

• It's always the text of the data table
• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11890
• Important

Force a line break in legend text

• Or avoid it.
• covered in http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=64699

Split Legend into more parts

• for more complex Legends, it might be useful to split the legend into 2-3 parts and apply advanced sorting and formatting for the individual groups
• e.g. we might have a legend detailing the p-Values (when they were coded as NS, *, ** and ***, see ||Significance Values)
• and a second Legend detailing the actual data

Highlight individual Legend entries

Ability to Import/Save such Legend Styles