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Is it possible to have more than 6 colours for pie charts/graphs? It would be preferable to be able to allocate a different colour for each series. Currently the chart is re-using the same colours more than six series entries.
iMac 24″
Click on the chart
Click on a wedge
Look over at the format sidebar
Click on Style
Change the color
Click on another wedge and change the color of it
etc.
Click on the chart
Click on a wedge
Look over at the format sidebar
Click on Style
Change the color
Click on another wedge and change the color of it
etc.
Actually, it is more than 6 colors. The colors change but it is subtle with the default color scheme. If you choose a different color scheme than the standard one, the colors are more obviously different. I forget how many colors it has before it repeats. 16 I think.
You can change the colors of the wedges manually. You can save your new color scheme as a chart style. Move the new style to the first position and it will be the default. If you want to have that style in new documents, create it in whatever template you use for new documents and save it as a template. You can also get it into other documents by copy/pasting the modified chart to a new document then creating a chart style from it in that document.
Thank you so much! I will take a look at the other colour options but in the meantime how do I manually change the colour on individual wedges? I did think of doing that but couldn’t figure out how to.
Duh! How did I miss that? Thank you :-)
Allocate more than six colours to graph
