To create a pie chart in Excel 2016, add your data set to a worksheet and highlight it. Then click the Insert tab, and click the dropdown menu next to the image of a pie chart. Select the chart type you want to use and the chosen chart will appear on the worksheet with the data you selected. Highlight the data that you would like to use for the pie chart. In this example, we have selected the range A1:B5. Select the Insert tab in the toolbar at the top of the screen. Click on the Pie Chart button in the Charts group and then select a chart from the drop down menu.
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␡- Creating Pie Charts
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Creating Pie Charts
The third major type of chart is the pie chart. Pages allows you create 2D or 3D pie charts. You can make simple ones, or use colors and textures to create what almost seem like physical objects. Pie charts are great for taking a whole amount, like a budget or population, and visually showing the divisions within it.
- Open a blank page layout document.
- Click the Charts button on the toolbar.
Select the 2D pie chart.
- You get a basic pie chart in the middle of your page.
- Use the same Chart Data Editor to change the values in the chart.
Pie charts only use the first row of data.
- Bring up the Inspector window.
- Go to the Chart inspector.
- You can remove or alter the appearance of the labels. The Position setting determines how far from the center of the pie the label appears.
You can add the column names for each item in the pie chart.
- Choose only one slice of the pie by clicking it.
- Move that slice away from the center of the pie to emphasize it.
- Add a shadow under just that slice, or the entire pie chart.
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How to show percentage in pie chart in Excel?
This article is talking about how to show or display the percentage value in pie chart in Excel.
Show percentage in pie chart in Excel
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Show percentage in pie chart in Excel
Please do as follows to create a pie chart and show percentage in the pie slices.
1. Select the data you will create a pie chart based on, click Insert > Insert Pie or Doughnut Chart > Pie. See screenshot:
2. Then a pie chart is created. Right click the pie chart and select Add Data Labels from the context menu.
3. Now the corresponding values are displayed in the pie slices. Right click the pie chart again and select Format Data Labels from the right-clicking menu.
4. In the opening Format Data Labels pane, check the Percentage box and uncheck the Value box in the Label Options section. Then the percentages are shown in the pie chart as below screenshot shown.
Tips: If you check both the Value and Percentage boxes, the value and the percentage will be displayed in the pie chart. See screenshot:
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Ok so what I want to do is switch it around, so that my labels show the categories and the legend shows the percentage. is there a way to do that other than re-structuring the table I used to make it?