Apple numbers User Manual

 Using Charts

 

You can use the Format Bar to format font characteristics and style. For additional 
formatting options, use the Format menu or the Font panel. See “Using the Format 
Menu to Format Text” on page 121 and “Using the Font Panel to Format Text” on 
page 123 for instructions.

You can add descriptive text to a chart, such as when you want to provide background 
information for a particular data point.

Create a text box. See “Adding Text Boxes” on page 141 for instructions.

Drag the text box to where you want it on the chart.

Type text in the text box.

Optionally group the chart and the text box so the text stays with the chart. Shift-click 
to select both the chart and the text box, and then choose Arrange > Group.

Formatting Specific Types of Charts

Different chart styles offer unique options for formatting their elements.

For pie charts, Numbers plots only the first data point for each data series. If the data 
series are in rows, only the first column is charted; if the data series are in columns, only 
the first row is charted. 

Thus, one pie chart represents a single data set, and each wedge is one element in that 
set. You can chart any data set by moving it to the first row or column.

You can format a pie chart as a whole, or you can format individual wedges. 

If you want to format one or more wedges, you need to select them first. 

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To select a single wedge, click it.

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To select all the wedges, select any wedge and press Command-A.

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To select nonadjacent wedges, hold down the Command key as you select each 
wedge.

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To select a continuous range of wedges, select the first wedge, and then hold down the 
Shift key as you select the last wedge.