Click the button again to remove the preview legend. Tip:Ĭlick Preview to see what the legend will look like. You can further refine your columns by modifying the legend after it has been created using the options on the Items tab of the Legend Properties dialog box. The wizard does not provide options to determine where columns begin. This panel of the wizard also provides options to set the number of columns in the legend. This reordering does not affect layer ordering in the table of contents. You can reorder the layer list as you see fit. You have the option to remove any of the layers listed. When you first access the wizard, you will see the list of layers in your map that will make up the legend. Set the spacing between legend elements.Customize the shape and size of legend patches.Create and symbolize a border and background for the legend.Set the number of columns in the legend.Choose which map layers you want to be part of the legend.
The Legend Wizard provides an easy, quick way to add a legend to your map. You can customize the legend patches, for example, so areas are represented with patches of another shape, or rivers are drawn with a sinuous rather than a straight line. By default, the legend patches are points, straight lines, or rectangles that match the map symbols. Legends have patches that show examples of the map symbols.
When you use multiple symbols to represent features in a single layer, the field you use to classify the features becomes a heading in the legend, and each category is labeled with its value. When you use a single symbol for the features in a layer, the layer is labeled with the layer's name in the legend. Legends consist of examples of the symbols on the map with labels containing explanatory text. A legend tells a map reader the meaning of the symbols used to represent features on the map.