This Excel tutorial explains how to create a basic pie chart in Excel 2016 (with screenshots and step-by-step instructions).
![]() What is a Pie Chart?![]()
A pie chart is a circle that is divided into slices and each slice represents a proportion of the whole.
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It is a graphical object used to represent the data in your Excel spreadsheet that uses 1 series of data to create the graph.
You can use a pie chart when:
If you want to follow along with this tutorial, download the example spreadsheet.
Steps to Create a Pie Chart
To create a pie chart in Excel 2016, you will need to do the following steps:
If you’re using Excel 2016, you get the luxury of using Excel’s new statistical charts. Statistical charts help calculate and visualize common statistical analyses without the need to engage in brain-busting calculations. This new chart type lets you essentially point and click your way into a histogram chart, leaving all the mathematical heavy lifting to Excel.
To create a histogram chart with the new statistical chart type, follow these steps:
Note that you can also have Excel create a histogram with a cumulative percentage. This would output a histogram with a supplemental line showing the distribution of values.
Excel outputs a histogram chart based on the values in your source dataset. As you can see here, Excel attempts to derive the best configuration of bins based on your data.
Excel auto-generates a histogram based on its own derived bins.
You can always change the configuration of the bins if you’re not happy with what Excel has come up with. Simply right-click the x-axis and select Format Axis from the menu that appears. In the Axis Options section (see the following figure), you see a few settings that allow you to override Excel’s automatic bins:
The next figure illustrates how the histogram would change when the following settings are applied:
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