How to reverse Excel legend order?

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As Karima pointed out : the solution that works is simple, although not intuitive: Change the place of the legend to right and then to left (or reverse) and you get the desired order.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Karima Touati
    Karima Touati over 1 year

    I have an Excel graph (a stacked bar chart) where years are on the x-axis.

    The problem is that the order of the legend labels doesn't fit with the order of the values in the bars as shown in the picture below.

    Image containing legend and bar chart, in which the order of the legend doesn't correspond to the order of the bars

    How can I change the legend order or reverse it ?

    • cybernetic.nomad
      cybernetic.nomad over 4 years
      A screen cap of the table used to generate this chart would be useful to diagnose the problem
    • Karima Touati
      Karima Touati over 4 years
      @cybernetic.nomad I resolved the problem. It was not linked to the data table. I simply changed the place of the legend to right and then to left so I got the desired order.
  • Karima Touati
    Karima Touati over 4 years
    l tried that methode but it didn't worked. It was not linked to the data table as well. I simply changed the place of the legend to right and then to left so I got the desired order
  • JounceCracklePop
    JounceCracklePop over 3 years
    Both Left and Right had the reverse order for me, but changing it to Top and then manually moving & resizing it got it into to the correct order.