Click the "Insert" menu and click the small arrow under Pie in the Charts group to see a drop-down menu with icons of available pie chart styles. These are organized in two groups: 2D and 3D.

Highlight just the cells with the data for the pie chart, then click the Charts option. Choose one of the pie charts, such as 2-D, and Excel inserts it onto the grid.

Pie Charts The Pie chart is constructed from a single row (or column) of data that represents a part of the whole (pie); or a single column of numbers that, when added together, equal 100 percent.

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Now compare those pie charts to these bar graphs. They show the same information, but the bar graphs let us see much more precisely both the changes and how big the different categories are.

Back in 2012, The Salt surveyed readers on their favorite pies during our Pie Week series. Recently, an Australian reader tells us she pie-charted our results with mouth-watering real pie.

Since it is tax day I chose a chart from the IRS for my comments today. Figure 1 shows the chart with the labels cropped out. The wedges of a pie chart add to 100%. Please estimate the percentage ...

The Circle Graph and Pie Chart No one really knows how Playfair dreamt up the pie chart. Some wonder whether it’d always been around—and if Playfair was just the first to actually publish one ...

Did you know that 76 percent of people who see pie charts and graphs in a newspaper or web story read the entire article, and 54 percent are glad they did? OK, I made that up, but that's the kind ...