Microsoft KB Archive/68645

Chart Legend Does Not Remain Where Positioned in PowerPoint PSS ID Number: Q68645 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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Summary:

In PowerPoint Graph, the “inside” style of a legend may be moved from its default position to another location on the chart. However, if the chart is resized or proportioned again, the legend will automatically return to its default position.

More Information:

This is not a problem with PowerPoint or the Graph program. The repositioning of the legend is by design.

To allow an object to maintain a custom position in a window, the object must be relative to some other element of the window. If the size or proportions of the chart window are changed, then the references for positioning the legend have been altered. Any single part of the chart window might become an inappropriate choice as an anchor-point or reference-point for the legend, depending upon what sort of proportional or size changes have been made.

For this reason, to prevent positioning the legend incorrectly, the legend will return to the default position any time the chart is resized, proportioned again, or minimized.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.