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Can anyone help? I have a spreadsheet to which I have one column that has
different letters in, I need to create a pie chart that shows the amount of
the same letter (i.e. 'P's in blue, 'F's in red etc) just so I can show how
many of one letter there is?

Any ideas and please explain fully as I am quite a new user
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Debra Dalgleish
 
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Add a heading to the column of letters then you could create a pivot
table to summarize the data, and create a pie chart from the pivot table
results.

There are instructions for pivot tables in Excel's Help, and Jon Peltier
has information and links:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Pivots/pivotstart.htm

In the pivot table, add the letter field to the row area, and another
copy of the letter field to the data area, as Count of Letter


hclements wrote:
Can anyone help? I have a spreadsheet to which I have one column that has
different letters in, I need to create a pie chart that shows the amount of
the same letter (i.e. 'P's in blue, 'F's in red etc) just so I can show how
many of one letter there is?

Any ideas and please explain fully as I am quite a new user



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