Just double click a data label, then uncheck value and check percentage. Because the data shows a part-to-whole relationship - in other words, everything adds up to 100% - we can tell Excel to show a percentage instead of just the number. To start off, I'll resize the chart and bump up the text size. I'll use Insert, then select the pie chart option.Excel builds the chart.Īs always there're some things here we want to change. I'll leave the data for now, and lock the reference inside SUM so I can sort the categories later if I want without any problems. Now I'll just use the SUM function to gather up the rest of the data in the 'other' category. We want a small number of categories so I'm going to insert 2 rows after Safari, then add a new category called 'Other'.

Just select and copy the data, then use Paste Special with Transpose. The horizontal layout of this data is kind of awkward so let's transpose the data to a vertical format first. Pie charts show a 'part to whole' relationship, and they work best with a limited number of categories. Let's build a pie chart to plot this data. Here we have data that shows market share for desktop browsers in 2016. In this video, we'll look at how to create a pie chart in Excel.

Create pie chart in excel percentages