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Auto positioning of labels outside pie slices
When I make a pie chart with Excel, the data labels are always shown within
the pie slices as the default. For greater readability, I click on the labels and drag them outside the slice, and the leader lines connect the labels with the pie slices. Is there any way I could do this with a command or click rather than drag each label individually manually? |
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Auto positioning of labels outside pie slices
If you double-click on the group of data labels it will bring up the Format
Data Labels dialog box. Go to the Alignment tab and choose Label Position = Outside End. You could then set this up as a user-defined custom chart so that you don't have to go through this process with every pie chart you create. To do so, go to Chart - Chart Type - Custom Types - User Defined - Add. -- John Mansfield http://www.cellmatrix.net "Steven" wrote: When I make a pie chart with Excel, the data labels are always shown within the pie slices as the default. For greater readability, I click on the labels and drag them outside the slice, and the leader lines connect the labels with the pie slices. Is there any way I could do this with a command or click rather than drag each label individually manually? |
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Auto positioning of labels outside pie slices
Thanks very much! The tab actually is Label Options instead of Alignment,
but it worked perfectly. "John Mansfield" wrote: If you double-click on the group of data labels it will bring up the Format Data Labels dialog box. Go to the Alignment tab and choose Label Position = Outside End. You could then set this up as a user-defined custom chart so that you don't have to go through this process with every pie chart you create. To do so, go to Chart - Chart Type - Custom Types - User Defined - Add. -- John Mansfield http://www.cellmatrix.net "Steven" wrote: When I make a pie chart with Excel, the data labels are always shown within the pie slices as the default. For greater readability, I click on the labels and drag them outside the slice, and the leader lines connect the labels with the pie slices. Is there any way I could do this with a command or click rather than drag each label individually manually? |
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