Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 11. Working with Charts and Graphs

Geetesh Bajaj

In this chapter

• Exploring Chart Possibilities 176

• Understanding Charts in PowerPoint 176

• Adding a Chart 178

• Selecting a Chart Type 180

• Entering Data in the Datasheet 181

• Creating a Custom Chart type 186

• Chart Tools Ribbons 187

• Formatting a Chart 191

• Adding a Trendline 199

• Troubleshooting 201

• Design Corner: Using Chart Formatting Options 202

Exploring Chart Possibilities

Unlike in previous versions, PowerPoint no longer uses the Microsoft Graph component that it shared with Microsoft Excel. In fact, PowerPoint no longer manages or creates the data for any chart at all—all the datasheet abilities have been handed over to Excel. Insert a chart and Excel comes up magically to assist PowerPoint in storing ...