Load the Excel worksheet containing the chart you want to edit. Click the chart into which you want to insert a legend. Click the "Charts" tab on the ribbon to load the Charts group. Click the ...

Launch the Excel 2010 spreadsheet that holds the scatter plot you want to adjust. Click anywhere on the chart, then click the "Layout" tab that appears at the top of the Excel window.

In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

If you notice that the Legend of the chart is missing, and you want it to be in the chart, click the chart and click the Chart Elements button and check the Legend checkbox from its menu.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.

This technique lets you build an Excel chart that shares supportive information in series form.