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Berean_50
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5 years ago
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How to change legend marker shape in Line and Column chart

How do you change the marker shape in the legend for a Line and Column chart as shown below?  How do I change the round blue shape to a square?    
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hi Berean_50 

    I have checked your sample, and I think the reason is as you said that Current is in Column Field in your visual. I think shape funtion could only change the shape of line part in "Line and Cluster Column" chart. This function aims to distinguish the line and column part in Legend. I couldn't find a function to change the shape of column part as well. You see that if I add Product ID in Column series, Legend for column part will all show in circle.

    If you want the line and column part to show the same shape, I suggest you to change the shape in line part to circle.

    Your demand is a good idea, while it is not supported to implement in Power BI currently.
    You can submit a new idea to improve the Power BI: Idea.
    It is a place for customers provide feedback about Microsoft Office products . What’s more, if a feedback is high voted there by other customers, it will be promising that Microsoft Product Team will take it into consideration when designing the next version in the future.

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

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Greg_Deckler
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5 years ago

Berean_50 I'm on August but can you scroll down because the Customize series toggle is just underneath Stepped.

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Berean_50
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5 years ago

Hi Greg_Deckler , Stepped is the last item in in the Shapes section. As you can see the next section is Plot Area. This is the Line & Clustered Column chart.

 

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      Berean_50
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      5 years ago

      Hi Greg_Deckler , my last screenshot was from the August 21 release. I went through every single card and option and I could not see the option to change the shape of the data columns. Yes, I can change the legend marker shape which affects the line chart series but cannot change bar column shape which is set to a blue round shape! 

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        Greg_Deckler
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        5 years ago

        Berean_50 OK, put a second anything (column/measure) into your Line values area, this is how I got it to show up for a Line and clustered column chart.