A legend shows the series name in a legend entry. Period.

To display fewer legend entries than the chart would show by default, click
once on the legend, then once on an extraneous legend entry, then press
Delete. To get any deleted legend entries back, you have to delete the
legend and add it back, with all legend entries.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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"GJS001" wrote in message
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Sorry - that was poorly worded. I have gone slightly off-topic by now
wanting to change the legend entry for scatter plot series.

I would like to double-click on the legend entry (or right click and
Format)
as I do on axis titles, etc. to enter new or different text, regardless of
whether it is a trendline or scatter plot data. Right now, the only way
to
change the legend entry for scatter plot data is to change the series
name.
However, there are many instances where I don't want to change the series
name (such as I have many series on a single chart, and identify them by
the
series name, but only want a single legend entry to represent all of
them).

If there is a way of changing the legend entry for a data series, I am
unaware of it.


"Jon Peltier" wrote:

No option for what? The technique Luke described does what it sounds like
you're asking.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/
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"GJS001" wrote in message
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Duh... I had even used a Custom Trendline name earlier. My memory is
not
what it used to be.

I was frustrated with trying to enter custom names for data series
legend
entries without renaming the series itself. There seems to be no
option
for
this.



"Luke M" wrote:

Go to Chart - Add Trendline. Click the Options tab. You can then
input a
custom name for your trendline.
Or if you've already added it, double click on line, go to Options
tab.
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Best Regards,

Luke M
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"GJS001" wrote:

Is there a way to edit the legend text for a trendline?

Or is the only option to:

1. delete the tendline legend entry
2. create a "dummy" data series to add the legend item
3. remove the marker and line from the "dummy" series, so only the
title
remains.