MS Word - How To Create Pie Chart

How To Create Pie Chart

Pie chart is mostly used by organizations and other firms in drafting out different section for maybe expenses, percentage of revenue, expenditure etc.
Pie Chart is simple and easy to understand, make viewers or readers to clearly see the proportion of what is being presented.

  • HOW TO CREATE PIE CHART
  • Step 1 - Open the Ms-word document, place you text cursor in the point that you want to place the pie chart.
  • Step 2 - Click on the Insert tab, go to the Illustrations group and click on the Chart option or command.
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  • Step 3 - A dialog box will display. From the All Charts categories click the Pie option. On the left top column, choose the type of pie chart you want. Click the Okay button.
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  • Step 4 - The Pie Chart together with an Excel spreadsheet will be displayed.
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  • EDITTING AND FORMATTING PIE CHART
  • Step 1 (Edit Data) - Editing data in a Pie Chart is simple and straight, just go to the excel spreadsheet that came with the pie chart, click and edit the text accordingly.
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  • Step 2 (Styling Chart) - This can be done from the Chart Design tab inside the Styles group. Just click on any style you like and it will be applied to the chart.
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  • Step 3 (Change Colors) - In the same Chart Design tab, inside the Change color group, click on the Change color option, and a dropdown list of arranged colors will be displayed. Click on your preferred choice to apply the color.
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  • Step 4 (Apply other formatting) - Apart from the Chart Design which you can use to edit and format chart, you can also format individual areas of the chart. Right click on area (in my own case here, I clicked on the Chart Area) and from the dropdown list that displays click on the Format Chart Area. This will bring out the Format Chart Area pane from the right side of the window. This contains options to set the Fill, Border etc.
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  • Step 5 (Finalize) - After editing and formatting, close the pane, and click outside the chart to remove shape edit borders in order to view the chart without distractions.
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