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13.6.1 Drawing the Graph

To make the pie charts:

  1. Start a new spreadsheet, saving the histogram spreadsheet as histograms.

  2. Enter the following data into the new spreadsheet:

    A B
    1 cars 10000
    2 boats 2000
    3 planes 6000
    4 trains 1000
    5 bicycles 600

  3. Select the range A1..B5. The columns should now be highlighted.

  4. Select New Graph from the Graph menu and display its submenu.

  5. Select Pie Graph from the New Graph submenu. NExS will display a window containing a pie divided into 5 slices as shown in Figure 13.12. Each slice consumes a portion of the pie equal to the percentage of its data value out of the total of the values in column B. Each slice is also labeled with the text from column A and the percentage of the pie slice. The X data range (first column or row) contains the labels and the Y data range (second column or row) contains the sizes of the slices.

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Figure 13.12: Pie Chart 1


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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999