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Large metrics

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- [Instructor] Sometimes the best way to show your data is to just put it on your slide using text rather than trying to chart it, and that's really all I mean by the term "Large Metrics." Now here's an example of Large Metrics. Notice how I made that percent symbol small and not bold. Well, now that you know about preattentive attributes and why that helps the numbers stand out, you know why I did that. Now these are just donut charts and we use the data in the donut chart to create a bar that represents the same percentage as the numbers you see here. You can follow along with me using Exercise One, if you want. Now, the first thing here is, of course, I'm going to add a donut chart. So I'll go to insert and I'll choose chart and you'll notice there's no donut, but there is a pie. So look for all the desserts and you'll see that donut is a subset of pie. Click okay, and you've added the donut chart. Now I'm going…

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