I cannot change the default label positions on a pie chart. The option is not available

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Under Add chart element/Data labels, I can only choose "none", "show" or "callout".  When I go to "More data label options", under "Format Data Labels" I can only choose "Label Contains" and "Number".  Position is not available anywhere.

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Pie charts should have several options: Center, Inside End, Outside End, and Best Fit.
If you've actually made a Donut chart, there are no options, it just uses Center.
Thank you for your response. I've searched extensively for an answer to this problem and the only response seems to be that excel doesn't offer this option for all charts. So, I'll just have to untangle the labels each time I run the report.

Painful. I wonder if somehow the chart got messed up behind the scenes (corrupted). If you recreate the chart, do you get back all the options you expect?