December 26, 2008, Newsletter Issue #288: Avoid pies with everything in Excel

Tip of the Week

The most common cause of problems when producing charts is caused by people attempting to create pie charts from multiple data series.

A pie chart will allow to show one series of data broken down into its separate sections, but can not show more than one data series.

Consider using a doughnut chart instead.

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