Power Points!: How to Design and Deliver Presentations That Sizzle and Sell

Chapter Eleven. Compelling Charts: How to Put the Wow into Pie, Bar, and Line Graphs

“At the request of those who are following a low-carb diet, my pie chart has been replaced by a steak chart.”

	“Statistics will prove anything, even the truth.”
	--NOËL MOYNIHAN

The right chart used at the right time with the right audience can convince the most skeptical of audiences.

PowerPoint comes loaded with features that allow you to optimize a chart’s impact.

Persuading with Charts

Select the Appropriate Chart

	“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”
	--RALPH WALDO EMERSON

There are seven common chart types. These are:

1. Pie charts

2. Horizontal bar charts

3. Vertical ...