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Emily has attended:
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I need to do a basic chart with for example the following. (I already know the percentage, without numbers)

shop in Camden, 20%
shop in highgate, 30%
shop in islington 40%
shop in west london 12%

How can I show this in a chart

Or is it possible to show two places with 100%? Which chart is the easiest to use. And can you add the data without an excel spreadsheet?

I would really appreciate some help with this, its for a job tomorrow, I hope I have made sense.

Kind regards

Emily

RE: charts

Hi

For percentages like this a pie chart is standard. Your values here add up to 102% though which wont work. Pies must add up to 100. For charts like this its actually much better to use the original numbers and let excel work out the percentages for you. Go to insert>>chart and select pie. click next and in the data range box you should select the data you want to use. Click next and on the data labels tab select 'Show percentage' and click finish. This will give you a basic pie chart which can be formatted in various ways so best to have a play.

If you have to use the data above then i would go for a bar since bar will not change your percentage values.

Please see the two tabs in the attached sheet for an example.

Thanks
Rich

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Checking if a calculation adheres to Order of Precedence

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