
These steps apply to all seventeen of Word’s prebuilt chart types: Column

This tutorial explains the basics of creating and customizing charts in Microsoft Word. Download the worksheet here.Charts offer a concise and visually appealing way to present numeric information. If you have the newest Office, you can create a sunburst chart. In the next article, we will introduce these alternatives. However, we have to note that there are tricks by which we can create with the older Excel versions very similar representation. This could pose a problem for those (in our opinion, most of the users) who do not have the newest Office edition. If we try to open the just now made demonstration with an earlier Excel, we get an error message. This answer can only be found in the 2016 version of Excel.

We can’t clearly decide whether the following news is good or bad. We hope that this much help was enough so that you can use this type of chart with ease from now on. And within that category, the Photoshop teaching-related books had the most sales in the given time period.

For example, if you examine the dark green slice “Tutorials” on the innermost ring, the “How to?” category had the most sales based on the former logic. You can analyze the whole chart following this logic. Therefore, sales within the category can be seen on the outer ring (if applicable). For example, within the category of children’s books, the “Baby books” were the most profitable ( we know this because this has the biggest area).

The second ring is the subcategory level. Amongst other things, this is one of the advantages of data visualization. In the innermost ring, we marked all the income from children’s books with light blue color.įrom the chart containing only the raw data, we could not have seen right away that children’s books take up one-third of all the income. Let’s take a look at the chart in this picture.
