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Better display of my pie charts
Is there a way to get a better image of my pie charts?
They are really stair stepped and when I put them in my Word Document of my report it looks less than professional. Is there a way to get excel to smooth the curves better? Thanks, Tom |
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
tshad said: Is there a way to get a better image of my pie charts? They are really stair stepped and when I put them in my Word Document of my report it looks less than professional. Is there a way to get excel to smooth the curves better? Some ideas: 1) Copy it as a Picture (i.e. vector format) instead of a Bitmap or 2) expand the bitmap to double the size in Excel, and shrink it back to half the size in Word or 3) export a big bitmap to a good photo processor like Photo Shop (good but expensive), Paint Shop Pro (cheaper - I bought it!), or GIMP (free, I believe), and re-export at smaller size. Unlike Excel, these programs handle anti-aliasing well for graphics as well as text. or 4) Get Excel 2007, which is advertised as having better graphics, which I would *hope* means they now have anti-aliasing of the graphics as well as the fonts. ("anti-aliasing" is what programs do to avoid stair-stepping in low-res graphics) -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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Another alternative would be to select a chart type more suited to
information display. A bar or column chart comes to mind. Since these show data as a distance in one direction only, they are easier to interpret quickly than the pie, which forces the reader to interpret angles or areas, which studies show are less accurate interpretations. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Del Cotter" wrote in message ... On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, tshad said: Is there a way to get a better image of my pie charts? They are really stair stepped and when I put them in my Word Document of my report it looks less than professional. Is there a way to get excel to smooth the curves better? Some ideas: 1) Copy it as a Picture (i.e. vector format) instead of a Bitmap or 2) expand the bitmap to double the size in Excel, and shrink it back to half the size in Word or 3) export a big bitmap to a good photo processor like Photo Shop (good but expensive), Paint Shop Pro (cheaper - I bought it!), or GIMP (free, I believe), and re-export at smaller size. Unlike Excel, these programs handle anti-aliasing well for graphics as well as text. or 4) Get Excel 2007, which is advertised as having better graphics, which I would *hope* means they now have anti-aliasing of the graphics as well as the fonts. ("anti-aliasing" is what programs do to avoid stair-stepping in low-res graphics) -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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Actually, I just found that if I move the excel sheet to my Mac it looks
100% better. Which is strange since they are both Excel. I also found that when I copy and paste the chart (or just move the chart from the excel sheet to the Mac) there is NO stair stepping. When I print it, it looks great. Nice curvy lines around the Mac. Not sure why the PC can't do the same thing. It is obviously not the copying that is the problem. In the Excel sheet on the PC it looks the sam way (terrible). On the Mac, it looks great. I guess I will be doing all my charting on the Mac and not the PC. Thanks, Tom "Del Cotter" wrote in message ... On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, tshad said: Is there a way to get a better image of my pie charts? They are really stair stepped and when I put them in my Word Document of my report it looks less than professional. Is there a way to get excel to smooth the curves better? Some ideas: 1) Copy it as a Picture (i.e. vector format) instead of a Bitmap or 2) expand the bitmap to double the size in Excel, and shrink it back to half the size in Word or 3) export a big bitmap to a good photo processor like Photo Shop (good but expensive), Paint Shop Pro (cheaper - I bought it!), or GIMP (free, I believe), and re-export at smaller size. Unlike Excel, these programs handle anti-aliasing well for graphics as well as text. or 4) Get Excel 2007, which is advertised as having better graphics, which I would *hope* means they now have anti-aliasing of the graphics as well as the fonts. ("anti-aliasing" is what programs do to avoid stair-stepping in low-res graphics) -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
tshad said: Actually, I just found that if I move the excel sheet to my Mac it looks 100% better. Which is strange since they are both Excel. It's not so strange. I've never used Excel for Mac, but I understand it has much better graphic quality, particularly in anti-aliasing of the graph elements. I believe it also has features like the ability to choose the stroke width of the lines around symbols and objects, because the writers used the Mac's built-in graphics facilities. So Excel for Mac really does have features that Excel for Windows lacks, they're not exactly the same application. -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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Actually, I just found that if I move the excel sheet to my Mac it looks 100% better. Which is strange since they are both Excel. It's not so strange. I've never used Excel for Mac, but I understand it has much better graphic quality, particularly in anti-aliasing of the graph elements. I believe it also has features like the ability to choose the stroke width of the lines around symbols and objects, because the writers used the Mac's built-in graphics facilities. So Excel for Mac really does have features that Excel for Windows lacks, they're not exactly the same application. If you want programmability, however, only the PC version has the upgraded VBA engine that shipped with Excel 2000. Macs use the older version that Excel 97 included. In future, we hear that MS is planning to drop Mac VBA support. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ |
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"Del Cotter" wrote in message
... On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, tshad said: Actually, I just found that if I move the excel sheet to my Mac it looks 100% better. Which is strange since they are both Excel. It's not so strange. I've never used Excel for Mac, but I understand it has much better graphic quality, particularly in anti-aliasing of the graph elements. I believe it also has features like the ability to choose the stroke width of the lines around symbols and objects, because the writers used the Mac's built-in graphics facilities. So Excel for Mac really does have features that Excel for Windows lacks, they're not exactly the same application. That was what I found out, also. I found that text in the charts, such as titles, also display better on the Mac. Thanks, Tom -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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