Just select the chart, go to the Labels dropdown menu in the Chart Options section of the Formatting Palette, then select Percent from that list. Alternatively, Right-click any slice, select Format Data Series, then pick either Show Percent or Show Category name & Percent from the Labels options.
On Mar 27, 1:52am, wrote: Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Processor: intel Once I create a pie chart, how do I change the legend labels 1,2,3, etc. To something descriptive? Did you ever figure this out?
I have the same issue. Not yet.
Apparently not too many power users read these question forums, just newbies like us. I have the O'Reilly book on order which will hopefully explain this common function. When I solve it I will post the answer. June Low MSFT 28/3/2008, 11:40 น. Hi leu:) When you insert your pie chart, is it just with one column of data? I find that if I have one column (A) of labels and a second column (B) of labels and I select both and create a pie chart that way, it uses column A for the legend labels and column B for the data.
I hope this helps. If not, please let me know a little more about the data you're trying to plot and I'll try to help.
June OfficeArt Tester, MacBU Microsoft On 3/28/08 11:23 AM, in article [email protected], ' wrote: - This posting is provided 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. [email protected] 28/3/2008, 12:47 น. Hi leu:) When you insert your pie chart, is it just with one column of data? I find that if I have one column (A) of labels and a second column (B) of labels and I select both and create a pie chart that way, it uses column A for the legend labels and column B for the data. I hope this helps.
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If not, please let me know a little more about the data you're trying to plot and I'll try to help. - June OfficeArt Tester, MacBU Microsoft Hello June, Thanks for the helpful response. My spreadsheet is more complicated. It is one that grows columns to the right-hand side over time.
The data is separated from the labels in the first column and only certain data values in the columns(totals) are used in the pie chart, not the whole column(for instance M5, M10, M15). Your suggestion led me to try another way of creating the chart that works: Insert Chart, select the label cell on the spreadsheet, select the data cell it corresponds to, repeat for each instance of label/data and then select the pie chart control from the elements gallery to create it. The concept I was missing is that the pie chart labels must be tied to a label on the spreadsheet. Thanks again.
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