How to do it...

To follow along, open the Waffle chart packaged workbook.  In this example, we are looking at word counts for each Lord of the Rings character by race:

  1. Use the Waffle frame Excel sheet:
    • This Excel sheet is 100 rows representing each percentage point. Because we want to create a frame of 100 squares in a 10 x 10 frame, we have columns called Rows, Columns, and Percentage. Each row and column has a value of 1 through 10, repeating. This creates a 10 row x 10 column square. The first 20 are displayed in the following screenshot:

  1. Add Columns to the Columns shelf and Rows to the Rows shelf. Because we want these values to ...

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