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Sector Graphs and Spreadsheets

This document provides steps for creating a pie chart in Microsoft Excel to display pet sales data from a shop on Monday. It includes entering the data into a spreadsheet, inserting a pie chart, selecting the data range for the chart, adding a title, changing the display options, saving and modifying the data to update the chart, and trying other graph types to visualize the categorical data. The document suggests creating different graphs of the data and commenting on which best conveys the information for different purposes like publishing.

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Sector Graphs and Spreadsheets

This document provides steps for creating a pie chart in Microsoft Excel to display pet sales data from a shop on Monday. It includes entering the data into a spreadsheet, inserting a pie chart, selecting the data range for the chart, adding a title, changing the display options, saving and modifying the data to update the chart, and trying other graph types to visualize the categorical data. The document suggests creating different graphs of the data and commenting on which best conveys the information for different purposes like publishing.

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16.

4 Pie charts

SECTOR GRAPHS AND SPREADSHEETS

The steps below show you how to create a graph using Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program. If you
have different spreadsheet software, the process should be similar.

STEP 1 Enter the data

The table shows the number of pets sold in a shop on Monday.


Open a new spreadsheet and enter the headings and data as shown
here.

STEP 2 Insert a graph


Open the Insert tab and select the Pie graph. Select the ordinary 2-D graph.

STEP 3 Select the data range

Click on the blank graph window then click from


the Design option bar.

Click and drag to select cells A2 to B4. The Data


Source window will automatically fill with the
necessary information.

Click OK and your graph will be created.

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16.4 Pie charts

STEP 4 Enter graph title

Click in the small text box 'Chart Title' and enter 'Pets sold on
Monday' as the title for the graph.

STEP 5 Change the display


You can change the way in which the graph is displayed by clicking on each of the different options in
the Chart Layouts or Chart styles in the Design tools. Each has additional options found using the
arrows at the end of the bar section.

STEP 6 Save and change graph

Save your file then change the data in the cells to determine how this affects your graph.

STEP 7 Change the type of graph

Click in the graph to bring up the Design options.

Click and select other graph types that are


suitable for discrete categorical data eg column graphs.
Could you use a line graph for this data?

Create several displays. Paste each of your graphs into a text document (eg Word). On this document,
comment on how well each graph displays the data. If you needed to publish this information, which
of your graphs would you use and why?

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