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This formula will find the last category entry for the pie chart and capture it for the Chart Title. Your data may be different, but this will work for this example. Based on the data presented above, this finds the last month in row 3 on sheet 1. Here is how you do it.įirst, pick a spreadsheet cell where you want the Dynamic Chart Title to reside.

But when you create a Dynamic Excel Pie Chart, you will also want to make the Chart Title Dynamic. This might even be recommended to give the chart context. Most people put Chart Titles in their Excel Pie Charts. You can read and see more about “Creating Dynamic Charts with the Offset Function” here: Case Study – Creating a Dynamic Chart in Excel Using Offset Formula Press OK on this dialog box and the Select Data Series dialog box and this step is complete. It must be entered this way with the Sheet name ! Defined Name or it will not work.

You should now see the Edit Series dialog box and we want to change the “Series Values” to From here you need to click on the EDIT button in the Legend Entries (Series) area. Now you should see the Select Data dialog box. Now as I showed you how to use the Offset Formula in Excel Charts Postings that you can find here:įirst click on the chart and then choose the “Select Data” button from the Data group in the Design ribbon. Your chart should look like this when you are done: 2) Define a Name with the Offset Formula So highlight the range A3:D7 and insert a pie chart from the Excel Insert Ribbon.

Instead, I am going to chart cells A3:D7 so that I exclude the totals since they will not be used in the Pie Chart.

Now I am not going to chart the totals in my pie chart. Setup your spreadsheet data in any fashion that you like as long as you can make a pie chart out of it. However, I really always stress that users should use Tables as much as possible when creating dynamic Excel Dashboards, but in this instance, I can’t think of a better way than using the Offset function and actually, I can’t think of another way (so if you know of one that doesn’t use VBA or the Offset formula, please let me know in the comments) – (well maybe some combination of the direct formula, but that is the topic for a future post ) The Breakdownġ) Setup Your Data and Create a Pie Chartģ) Edit the Excel Pie Chart and Change the Data Series with Your New Current Data Named Formulaĥ) Link Your Chart Title to the Chart Title CellĦ) Watch in Glee as You Save Yourself Time Every Month Step-by-Step 1) Setup Your Data and Create a Pie Chart Well no problem, we can do this in Excel.