Is there a way to get a better image of my pie charts?
They are really stair stepped and when I put them in my Word Document of my
report it looks less than professional. Is there a way to get excel to
smooth the curves better?
Some ideas:
1) Copy it as a Picture (i.e. vector format) instead of a Bitmap
or
2) expand the bitmap to double the size in Excel, and shrink it back to
half the size in Word
or
3) export a big bitmap to a good photo processor like Photo Shop (good
but expensive), Paint Shop Pro (cheaper - I bought it!), or GIMP (free,
I believe), and re-export at smaller size. Unlike Excel, these programs
handle anti-aliasing well for graphics as well as text.
or
4) Get Excel 2007, which is advertised as having better graphics, which
I would *hope* means they now have anti-aliasing of the graphics as well
as the fonts. ("anti-aliasing" is what programs do to avoid
stair-stepping in low-res graphics)