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How to create a pie chart from a pop-up menu in Numbers?

I would like to be able to select a persons name from the Pop-up menu in the E column to chose who has bought an item. I would then like to create a pie chart showing how much money each person has spent on buying the items and have this update automatically. I have no idea how I would go about doing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 27, 2013 8:03 AM

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Jul 27, 2013 10:05 AM in response to AliM1987

Costs per person, with "Ali & Baker" as a separate entity (since no provision for separating costs)


The formula is this:


=SUMIFS($Cost, $Who Bought it?, "="&$Who Bought it?, $Bought?, "=TRUE")


The reasoning is:


Sum all Costs, if the following conditions are true:


$Who Bought it?, "="&$Who Bought it?

Group items in the 'Who Bought it? column that match the item in the same row as the formula.


$Bought?, "=TRUE"

Only include items that have actually been bought.


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I have highlighted the selected cell in red.

The coloured columns show which ones are relevant to the formula.


To create the totals, I added Footer rows to the table.

You could make a separate table if you prefer.


To create the pie chart, I selected just the costs in the footer rows, and clicked on Charts.


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How to create a pie chart from a pop-up menu in Numbers?

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