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Old 02-06-2009, 10:39 PM
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OK I've gotta make a pie chart with how many superfund sites there are in each county in Illinois. The sheet I have has every site listed, and I've sorted them by county. So rather than sitting here counting how many rows have "WINNEBAGO" county, is there any way to highlight the whole column and have excel tell me how many times each word is repeated in the column?

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I know this guy at work who knows all these cool formulas for that. If you can wait till Monday, I'll ask him.

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Old 02-06-2009, 10:53 PM
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lol homework is due monday

I think I may be on to something with Pivot Tables... trying to read up on it. Either that or I'll just have to not be lazy and make a table with each county, and how many times it's repeated...
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I think I may be on to something with Pivot Tables......
Yep, that is what he uses. I thought I had a copy of his spreadsheet with instructions on my PC. I am looking for it now.

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The formula you want is COUNTIF... search the formulas for a bit more detail.
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Step one - lay out your information as so.


Step two - go to "Insert" then "Chart"


Step three - select "pie" on the left, and the pick the type of pie chart - I like fancy 3D ones, but whatever.


Step four - for basic pie charts, you only need to use columns, and not worry about series, leading to step 5...


Step five - highlight the data ranges, but not empty cells or headers. This is the information you'll use for your chart.


Step six - Title your project, but don't worry about the rest of the information on this tab - they're for other types of charts.


Step seven - determine where you want the legend to be. Better on top or bottom if it'll be printed with a portrait orientation, on the sides if it's going to be landscape.


Step eight - determine what data you want to display - in this example, I used percentages, but whatever.


Step nine - Finish!


Optional step... If you want a "cleaner" look, insert the chart into sheet two, and use your data tables on sheet one.


Optional step - this is what it looks like in 3D.

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Wow dude... thank you for the guide. Wish I would have explained my problem better... I actually needed the step before the first table you set up. My current table of info looks like this

SITE COUNTY

ABC COOK
DEF COOK
GHI COOK
JKL DARIEN
MNO EFFINGHAM

etc. etc. Except theres about 100 counties and COOK county has some rediculous number like 120... I just highlighted all of em that said COOK and it gave me a count.

What I did is just made a table like yours by hand... and then went through making a chart like you had listed. I was trying to figure out how to use a function to make that table from what I have. I didn't want to type the names of every county and count them all. Thanks though!
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