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Table Of Contents
Chapter 7 Creating Charts from Data 155
To learn how to Go to
Apply colors and textures to a pie chart “Changing Pie Chart Colors and Textures” on
page 155
Show series and data point labels in a pie chart Showing Labels in a Pie Chart on page 156
Make individual pie wedges more visually
prominent
“Separating Individual Wedges from a Pie
Chart on page 15 7
Add shadows to pie charts Adding Shadows to Pie Charts and Wedges on
page 157
Rotate a 2D pie chart “Rotating 2D Pie Charts” on page 158
Perform other formatting “Formatting Charts” on page 143
Changing Pie Chart Colors and Textures
Here are ways to change pie chart colors and textures:
To ll series elements with specially designed colors or textures, click Inspector in m
the toolbar, click the Chart inspector button, and then click Chart Colors. Choose a
ll type (for example, 3D Texture Fills) from the rst pop-up menu, and choose a ll
collection (for example, Marble or Wood) from the second pop-up menu. Then do one
of the following:
To ll all the wedges, click Apply All. The rst ll is applied to elements in the rst Â
series, the second ll to elements in the second series, and so on.
To ll a single wedge, drag the ll to the wedge. Â
To adjust the opacity, stroke, shadow, and other graphical attributes of individual pie m
wedges, select the wedge you want to change, click the Graphic inspector button, and
then make the adjustments you want.
When adjusting the opacity and ll, note that dragging the Opacity slider at the
bottom of the Graphic inspector changes the opacity of the chart as a whole. To
format only a selected series, select it, and then adjust the opacity of the color ll,
gradient ll, or tinted image ll, as needed. For more details, see Adjusting Opacity on
page 224 and “Filling Objects with Colors or Images on page 225.
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Use one of your own images as a ll “Filling an Object with an Image” on page 228
Change the look of the line around the pie or
a wedge
“Changing the Style of Borders” on page 221
Change the shadows Adding Shadows to Pie Charts and Wedges on
page 157
Change the depth qualities of a 3D pie chart Adjusting Scene Settings for 3D Charts” on
page 162