How to convert Powerpoint datasheet to pie chart

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I need help to convert graph data to a pie chart. Help in plain English
please as I'm a novice and don't know the technology nor vocabulary.

Rome wasn't built in a week. Ok?

Many thanks.

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I need help to convert graph data to a pie chart. Help in plain English
please as I'm a novice and don't know the technology nor vocabulary.
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No problem. OK, to start off, your question refers to "PowerPoint datasheet".
This could mean different things to different people so rather than assume I
know what you mean, I'll ask. What is it, and how did it get there?

But so as to move things along, try this:

Go to the slide where you want your pie chart.
Choose Insert, Chart.
That will create a bar/column chart with some default data ... let that be for
now but from the main menu bar, choose Chart, Chart Type. In the resulting
dialog box, look in the Chart Type: list for Pie. Click it. Then in the Chart
sub-type area, choose a pie chart variation that fits your needs.

Click OK.

The default chart changes to a pie chart.

If you like, try plugging your own sample data into the datasheet.

When you're done, click anywhere outside the chart area to return to the normal
PowerPoint way of doing things.

To change the chart again, doubleclick it.
 
Steve Rindsberg said:
No problem. OK, to start off, your question refers to "PowerPoint datasheet".
This could mean different things to different people so rather than assume I
know what you mean, I'll ask. What is it, and how did it get there?

But so as to move things along, try this:

Go to the slide where you want your pie chart.
Choose Insert, Chart.
That will create a bar/column chart with some default data ... let that be for
now but from the main menu bar, choose Chart, Chart Type. In the resulting
dialog box, look in the Chart Type: list for Pie. Click it. Then in the Chart
sub-type area, choose a pie chart variation that fits your needs.

Click OK.

The default chart changes to a pie chart.

If you like, try plugging your own sample data into the datasheet.

When you're done, click anywhere outside the chart area to return to the normal
PowerPoint way of doing things.

To change the chart again, doubleclick it.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Hi Steve,
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Many thanks for your help.
I took a little bit of fiddling to figure out where to put mu key items -
horizontally or vertically but got there in the end. In my day (the 50's),
calculatordidn't exist as I recall.

There's hope.
Thanks again.
Des.
 
Many thanks for your help.
I took a little bit of fiddling to figure out where to put mu key items -
horizontally or vertically but got there in the end. In my day (the 50's),
calculatordidn't exist as I recall.
Click to expand...

<g> With a little humor and a lot of perseverence, anything's possible.
Or if it's not, you can at least have fun trying.

I'll back you up on the calculators. I do remember seeing one at my dad's office in
the late 60's - a Wang unit that was a standalone console the size of a small desk,
did addition/subtraction/multiplication/division and that's it, and cost $15,000.

For comparison purposes, you could've bought 8 VWs or MG Midgets for about that
much. Or the house I live in today, most likely.

Four or five years later, calculators were palm-sized and under $100. And did
square roots! Let's hear it for the microchip.
 
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