Chart maker · Donut

Donut chart maker

The pie's modern sibling: same share-of-total story, with a hollow center that fits your headline number. Paste the table, edit the result in PowerPoint or WPS.

Budget allocation — the ring shows the split, the center carries the number you want remembered.

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Categories and values, two columns. When they sum to a meaningful whole, the donut appears next to the pie in the recommendations. Same native, editable chart object in PowerPoint and WPS — the hole in the middle is just design headroom for your key figure. Animated GIF export included. Free, no sign-up.

When a donut wins

You have a headline number. Total budget, dominant share, completion rate — the center turns a chart into a KPI card.
The deck is a dashboard. Rings tile gracefully; four donuts in a row read as a control panel, four pies read as a bakery.
Same job as a pie, lighter touch. The hollow middle removes visual weight — the shares still land, the slide breathes.

When it lets you down

Close calls. 24% vs 26% on a ring is as unreadable as on a pie — that is a bar chart.
More than five segments. Thin rings shatter into slivers faster than pies do. Group the tail.
Two levels of hierarchy. A ring shows one ring. Nested structure belongs to the sunburst.

Try it with this data

Department	Budget share (%)
Engineering	45
Marketing	25
Sales	20
Operations	10

Field notes on donuts

Put the point in the center. "45% goes to engineering" — ring shows it, center says it, done.
Four segments, five at the edge. Past that, reach for bars.
One bright segment, the rest quiet. The ring's job is to frame the share you are arguing about.
Start at twelve, run clockwise, descending. Same discipline as the pie; the eye has habits, respect them.

A split and a headline number to go with it?

Paste it, ring it →

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From the field notes

Composition charts sell reallocation — the move is dissected in field note #1.

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