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I'm working with a QGIS project with a number of layers. When assembling a printout all visible layers are automatically added to the legend:

1st legend

I would like to exercise some control over the legend elements are remove some of the entries:

2nd legend

However, as the entries correspond to the upper levels in the hierarchy, deleting them will remove the keys:

1 - 20000
20000 - 40000
...

I'm working in Qgis 2.8. I'm not interested in modifying my layer structure but only in changing the legend elements.

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Instead of deleting legend items, you could hide them. From the Legend items options window, right-click the name of the layer and select the Hidden option:

Hide layer names

This would hide the names of layers, leaving the values:

Result

Hope this helps!

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  • Thank you very much, this solves my problem. Can I also ask if there is a convenient way of removing decimal places that are visible in your legend? I use QGIS to classify some of the variables automatically and on a few occasions I had to edit the legend by hand. I would like to automatically determine the number of decimal places generated and visible in the legend.
    – Konrad
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 12:34
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    @Konrad - Most welcome buddy! For the layers I used, they were made using the Graduated style. There's a Precision option which you can edit to increase/decrease the amount of decimal places. The legend should be automatically updated with the new precision...hopefully :)
    – Joseph
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 12:42
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    this is excellent. Thank you very much for the useful advice.
    – Konrad
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 12:44
  • @Konrad - My pleasure, hope you get the legend the way you want it to look :)
    – Joseph
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 12:46
  • I have found that the layers I don't want to show on the legend are already marked "Hidden". However there is a 'minus sign button' below the list of layers which does the trick
    – djnz0feh
    Commented Dec 13, 2022 at 10:28

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