Learn how to create a Pie Chart in Excel with percentages, without numbers, with words, multiple data or columns, etc. A pie chart helps understand data spread.

In Microsoft Excel, you can create a Half Pie Chart if your data range has a total. A Half Pie Chart is a 180 degrees graph that represents a composition as a whole.

You can easily make a pie chart in Excel to make data easier to understand. The process only takes 5 steps.

Highlight your new data set, including labels. Click the "Insert" tab. Click "Pie" in the "Charts" group and select which variety of pie chart you want to make.

When you create a pie chart in Microsoft Excel, three new tabs appear that offer several formatting options. One option is to overlay built-in shapes, such as block arrows that are useful as pointers.