Charts buggy in Snow Leopard

I tried to create a pie chart from a table of info. I first selected the data to chart and then clicked the chart pop-up menu and selected pie chart. It created a chart, but then only used data from one cell, not the entire selection that I had chosen. I then used the drag icon on the lower right-hand side of the selection and tried to drag to the remaining cells, but it would only select one additional cell. After ctrl-clicking all of the other cells, the data would not show on the chart, only the data from the original cell.
I'm using Numbers 09 on a Macbook 2.2GHz running OS X 10.6
Hope that made sense and you could follow. Anyone else have this problem or could recommend a solution? Thanks!

I do not see any numbers in your image, I assume they are being cut off on the right. So I still can't help you a whole lot but I can give some pointers on pie charts
Your "referral source" column must be a header column.
Your data cannot be in a header column or header row.
Your data must be a numeric type (not text, duration, or date&time).
Select the data only, not the categories (i.e., not the "referral source" column).
Create a pie chart.
Each row will be a separate category on the chart, even if they have the same "referral source". If you want all like ones grouped together, you'll have to do it yourself in your table or in another table and plot that data instead. You can do it with LOOKUP formulas.
The pie chart will add up to 100% and each category will be its respective piece of the pie. If your data is percentages and they don't add to 100%, the percentages on the chart will be different than those in the table.
That's about all I can say without first seeing the data you are plotting.

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rmo348 wrote:
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