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Anonymous
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Help with stacked bar chart - editing legend order

I followed these instructions on an old post to create a stacked bar chart (thanks @Sean!)

 

However, now the legend is listed alphabetically, and I need it to be in order of 'agreement' (ie strongly disagree, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, strongly agree)

 

Can anyone help with this?

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v-lili6-msft
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hi  @Anonymous 

By the way, you'd better add a custom sort column in power query after unpivot the column. Then sort by column as above solution.

 

Regards,

Lin

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v-lili6-msft
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Community Support

hi  @Anonymous 

By the way, you'd better add a custom sort column in power query after unpivot the column. Then sort by column as above solution.

 

Regards,

Lin

Community Support Team _ Lin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
amitchandak
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@Anonymous , refer https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Order-for-legends-in-stacked-bar-charts/m-p/1160424

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/stacked-column-chart-legend-order/m-p/427810

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@Anonymous you should sort the legend using sort by column technique described here

 

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