Hi. This is Melinda Wolverson with IT
Training at the University of Missouri.
Today I'm going to show you how to make
some basic pie charts in illustrator.
We're actually going to make
multiple pie charts all at once. That
way we can recolor them all together.
They will act as a group, although, as we
saw with the bar chart, we will be able
to change individual elements. I will
go to my chart icon and hold to select
the pie graph tool. Now I will draw
the area where I want the pie chart to
go, and you can see by default it gives
me my small excel area. I'm going to
highlight that and paste the
data in. When I hit the checkbox to apply
this, it's going to create my pie charts.
You can see that it only created three
pie charts, because it's going by rows,
not by column. If I transpose the rows
and the columns, and select apply. I now get
my four charts. If that's what I was
going for,
that's how you'll need to do that. Now i
want to recolor these pie charts, so I
will go to my recolor artwork icon and
select brights, just to change the colors on
that. If I want to edit these colors, I select
edit, right next to Assign, and then I can
rotate the colors, if I want to, and select a
particular color and change it, if I need
to. I'll select ok. That's starting to look
good. You can now add 3D elements. You
can add text. You can add lines, and so on
and so forth, to create what you saw in
my previous example. Let's say you
just want to fly a single piece out.
You want a piece to be separated in some
way. Again, just like we selected
individual bars in the bar chart, we can
use our direct selection tool. Once
you've deselected everything by
selecting on the whitespace, clicking on
it, then you can click on a single piece,
and that selects just that piece. You'll see
nodes at each point on it. Then you
can click, hold, and drag that piece apart.
So, now i can indicate that this
piece is important in some way and add
context to it, or add some text next to
it.
This has been Mel. Wolverson with IT
Training at the University of Missouri.
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