Select Insert > Chart > Pie and then pick the pie chart you want to add to your slide. In the spreadsheet that appears, replace the placeholder data with your own information.

For example, in the pie chart below, without the data labels it would be difficult to tell that coffee was 38% of total sales. Depending on what you want to highlight on a chart, you can add …

To make a chart easier to understand, you can add chart titles and axis titles, to any type of chart in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word.

This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs. On the Layout tab, in the Labels group, click Data Labels, and then click the option that you want.

Use the procedures in this article to learn how to add alt text to a shape, picture, chart, SmartArt graphic, or other graphical objects. To learn how to write alt text, go to Everything you need to …

To add text to a chart that is separate from the text in chart titles or labels, you can insert a text box on the chart. You can then enter the text that you want. Tip: Instead of entering text in the …

Learn best ways to select a range of data to create a chart, and how that data needs to be arranged for specific charts.

Learn how to update the data in an existing chart from its source. Edit a chart in Excel, create a chart from a table, and update a chart source.

Data labels make a chart easier to understand because they show details about a data series or its individual data points. For example, in the pie chart below, without the data labels it would …

Add a data series to a chart in Excel. Show a new data series in your chart (graph) by including the series and its name in the chart source data.