Without seeing the Access macro, I don't know why the legend isn't where you
want it. Unfortunately MS has made some formatting options of charts much
more difficult. Right click on the legend, choose Format Legend, then on the
first pane of the dialog, choose the legend position that you want.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"joe" wrote in message
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Charts that I have generated using an Access macro display the legend on
top
of the plot area. Attempting to format the legend area - including
toggling
on/off the "show legend without overlapping the chart" does not change the
behavior.

Changing the chart layout (chart tools/design/chart layout) will fix the
problem, but then I need to manually edit the chart back to the layout I
need. I would like to understand what property/feature I am setting in
the
macro that causes this behavior.

This behavior is not/was not seen in office 2003 environment. Access
Macro
was not changed going from Ofiice 2003 to Office 2007.

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joe richards