It is not clear what you mean by "Excel provides automatically equal space
for all series"
Why not just use abbreviations in the legends
You do know you can drag the legend box anywhere you wish on the chart?
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"tönchen" wrote in message
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I have several data series with different amount of text in the legend. At
the moment,excel provides automatically equal space for all series, but i
need for some series more than for others, otherwise the legend gets too
big
and i have to maximize the chart, which i do not want.
Is there a way to adjust the space according to the needed space?