Walter Hickey at Business Insider launched an excellent attack against pie charts. But in case all those words are bogging you down, we have a helpful, simpler version of his piece to offer.

Microsoft Excel's chart feature makes it pretty simple to "get your piece of the pie ... If you don't yet have a pie chart, you can easily create one. You need at least two sets of data points.

One option for sharing reports with ... you can make a pie chart in about five seconds. Here's how. How to make a pie chart in Excel 1. Open Microsoft Excel on your PC or Mac. 2.

A quarter is one of four equal parts, so if you multiply a quarter of the pie chart by 4, you can find out what the whole is. So: In this example, there are two pie charts. When you have two pie ...