Please Apple .....Update the Chart Software in Numbers Immediately!

Numbers is great, but then I go to do a simple pie chart and I don't have half the functionality of Excel....worse, I can't even get it to look professional! The colors are lousy, there is no way to move data point names to any meaningful extent (they are frequently overlaying the chart), the fonts for data series are "fuzzy" and the legends can't be manipulated or changed in any way....Help! Apple, please come thru for us....was someone looking at how this looks before it was released???!!!!!Please Help Us love you again!

samapple wrote:
Yvan...Thank you for your comment....I was perhaps imprecise in my message.
1. Yes, you can change the font of the data series displayed next to a pie chart but it is, in all cases, fuzzy and shadowy, not the normal clear text font; it looks muddy and not professional; perhaps you can tell me if I am missing something here.
2. If the name of the data series is displayed next to the pie chart, a name longer than 7-8 characters will encroach on to the pie chart, and you can not move the location of the data series names elsewhere on the sheet; it is not treated as an object for this purpose.
3. There is no way that I have found to change the shape of the legend keys (circles); they are cute, but again I would like some more control of their appearance for a more professional look.
4. I am not a fan of Excel...I am excited by the overall better control of presentations under Numbers; I am simply pointing out some basic(I believe) 1.0 flaws that need to be addressed if this is to be a business product.
Thanks for your help. Samapple
All of this can be changed.
The fuzziness is caused by the drop shadow effect used on the fonts. Call up the font inspector (not the text panel of the Numbers inspector) and you will see along the top of the toolbar almost exactly under the "Font" label, a T in a blue box; click that to toggle drop shadow on and off.
Yes, not very intuitive, is it? That's what Apple seems to think is necessary to tempt Windows switchers...
To move the data point values outside of the pie chart go to the pop up menu "Data point label" and at the bottom check outside and the labels will move to the out side of the chart. You can also make the charts really big...

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