Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a detailed look at using Pie Charts in Numbers.
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Now pie charts are great to use in Numbers because they don't take a lot of data to create. All you
really need are two or more numbers and you can have a pie chart. They are also easy for people
to understand and they look really good. It is better than looking at wall of numbers.
So, for instance here is a simple table that just has some basic sales data in
it. You can turn this easily into a pie chart. Just select the numbers,
I'm just going to select these here but I could also have selected the entire table.
Now I'm going to click Chart and now with 2D selected at the top I'm going to click here
to create a pie chart. I've got this pie chart right here. Let me move it next to the table.
Right off the bat it looks pretty good. But there are a ton of ways we can customize it.
In the Format Sidebar, under Chart, you can customize the colors picking some
premade color palettes here. Now I've got a bunch of chart options. You can have a title on or off.
Then you could click and select the title and change it. You've got the Legend here which
gives you the colors and the rows they match. You can turn that on or off. You can have a
caption below and you can customize that. You can change the Font to use. So I can change it
to something else or make it bigger or smaller and it applies to the whole chart. Change the style.
I can also change the chart colors by clicking here and you could see I get more options than
the styles that are just there. So I've got all of these and I can choose Images, or Textures
and really make the chart look good without having to do much
extra work. There are actually a ton of different textures that you can use here.
Now if we go to Wedges, this is where you can really do a lot. So here we can decide whether
or not we see values or names. So I can have the name of each one there making this Legend here
unnecessary. I can just have the names if I want. Now, I can also do the data value format. So here
it is percentage by default. But I can have it show the actual numbers if I want. I can add some
text before or text after the numbers. I could change the label options. Let's switch this to
the datapoint names and I'm going to use distance from center. You can see I can bring it closer
to the center or further away. If I bring it out you can see the text color actually change to be
black over the white there. So it doesn't become invisible. You can see the lines form. I can turn
Off the lines. I can make the lines straight or angled which is this nice effect right here.
I can change the thickness of the line. The type of line. The color of the line.
Even have end points like, for instance, arrows pointing to each individual one.
Now you can also change wedge position so you can change the distance from center. So you can
break these apart like that which looks fine if you do it for all. But I'm going to show
you how to do it for each individual wedge in a second. But the important one to know
here is the rotation angle because this starts here with bananas and then goes to the right.
You get something that has a divider line right here at the top. But what
if you wanted to have it rotate somewhere else like have bananas take up the top
area like that. So you can set the rotation angle to whatever you want.
Now you can change these wedge options for individual wedges. So, for instance, I can
click here and I've just chosen this one wedge. So now you can see under Format Wedge I still have
all of these options. So I can have the value for this one item here. I can have the distance from
center for the label here so I can have this pop out like that with a leader line if I wanted to.
I could have the wedge position distance from center change. So I can have this one wedge
come out like that to emphasize that this is the wedge that I want people looking at this
chart to pay attention to. Note I can select multiple wedges. So I can select this wedge
here and then I'm going to hold the Command Key down and select these other wedges. I can
take away the datapoint names like that. So I can just have this one label here.
Now if you want to change the color of a wedge you can select the wedge and you can go to Style and
then here you've got the Fill. You can change the Fill for this individual wedge. So, for instance,
I can make this one black like that. So you really can customize the wedges to be exactly the
colors that you want. You can even set a stroke around it. So I can make this, say, a red border.
So if you use Numbers a lot and you think you might want to use pie charts what I encourage
you to do is to create a sample chart like this and then play around with all of these
different values. Try doing different things with each wedge. Try doing different things
with the text. With all of the different options. Learn how to do it now. If you
find that you need to create a pie chart you won't be trying things out
right there on the spot. You'll already know how to get the result you want.
Now I want to show you a few more tips. One of them is using a chart like this you'll
see that pie charts are pretty smart. If you have all of this data here but you just want
to have these three items here, the sums of all the sales for each of these products,
you can create a pie chart for that by just selecting these three cells. Go to
Chart. Notice it uses the three cells you have selected. It even gets the column names and if
you go to Wedges and say datapoint names you can see it understands that you are
using the sums here of these three columns and will set everything up appropriately.
Now the next thing I want to show you is what if you have a pie chart like this where some
of the items are really small slices, like that. You can see the pie chart looks pretty
ugly. You can't really tell what these are. They kind of all mash together. What you would normally
see in a professionally made pie chart is these groups together and just showing Other. You can
do that with pie charts pretty easily. So first I want to make sure that I've sorted everything here
so that it is descending so the largest slices first and all of the small slices are grouped
together. Now I'm going to select the smallest slices, like that one, and then hit the Delete
Key, to delete it from the pie chart. I'm going to delete this one as well. But this is the one
I want to use to represent all three. So with this one selected I'm going to go to Format Wedge and
you can see under data it says value. What I can do here is I could actually go in to Edit it and
then I've got the Pears one there. So I'll do + and then Apples + Peaches. Now when I hit Return
you could see this slice now includes all three of those added together. In addition, I could change
the name. So I want to go in here and delete that which is basically just showing the word
pears from this cell. I'm going to use a double quote and then type Other and another double
quote. Now I've changed this to say whatever I want, in this case Other. So now I've got these
three slices here and this other slice. This other slice represents the sum of these three.
Now if you really want your pie chart to standout, instead of using a 2D pie chart
you can use a 3D pie chart. You can create a 3D pie chart by clicking on 3D at the top of
the Chart Creation Menu there and then choosing the 3D pie chart. You can convert an existing
2D pie chart by just going to Format, Chart and changing the chart type to 3D pie. Then it changes
to a pie chart. All of the things I showed you before work the same. You can go in and change
individual wedge and set colors and all of that. But in addition when you just select it you've
got this 3D manipulator here in the middle. Click and just drag around. You also have under Format,
Chart here a 3D Scene section. So you can see here you can do Chart Depth like that. You can select a
different lighting style if you want. You can have bevels for each individual wedge there. So you can
make your pie chart look ever more interesting by using a 3D one instead of a 2D chart.
Now I do want to point out there is a close relative to the pie chart called the doughnut
chart. So I'm going to go to Format, Chart with the chart selected. I'm going to switch this one
to a 2D Doughnut. But I could have just created one from the beginning. What this makes is a chart
that looks a lot like a pie chart but with the middle cutout. There are still a lot of the same
thing. They are called segments instead of wedges. But you still have all the same controls and I
can maybe bring these out or even bring the names inside. Another reason people like to use doughnut
charts is that sometimes they like to put an image in the middle. So you could take, say, a shape and
you could put that right there like that or a picture of something. People like to do that
and it makes it easier to see especially if there are several doughnut charts, which chart is which.
So I hope you found this look at using pie charts in Numbers useful. Keep in mind you
can also do pie charts in Pages and in Keynote as well. Thanks for watching.