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How to display leader lines in pie chart in Excel?

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2024-08-06

When there are many data in a pie chart in Excel, and after adding data labels to the pie, the labels will be huddled together, which make you confused as below screenshot shown. But if you display the leader lines in the pie chart, the pie chart will be viewed clearly.

a screenshot showing the original pie chart

Display leader lines in pie chart

Display leader lines in pie chart

To display leader lines in pie chart, you just need to check an option then drag the labels out.

1. Click at the chart, and right click to select Format Data Labels from context menu.

a screenshot of opening the Format Data Labels dialog

2. In the popping Format Data Labels dialog/pane, check Show Leader Lines in the Label Options section. See screenshot:

a screenshot of checking the Show Leader Lines box

3. Close the dialog, now you can see some leader lines appear.

a screenshot showing some leader lines in pie chart

If you want to show all leader lines, just drag the labels out of the pie one by one.

a screenshot showing all leader lines in pie chart

If you want to change the leader lines color, you can go to Format leader lines in Excel.

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