Chapter 12. Working with Charts

This chapter shows you how to create charts in PowerPoint as well as insert charts from Microsoft Excel.

Charts enliven your presentation with visual impact and convey routine data in a way that your audience can easily understand and analyze.

In this chapter, you learn how to insert and format eye-catching, informative charts into your PowerPoint presentations. You can also listen to tips on choosing the right chart type and formats and watch videos that show you how to create a chart in PowerPoint, insert a chart you created in Excel, and format your charts.

Understanding Charts

Charts enable you to display, analyze, and compare numerical data in a graphical format. For example, you can use a column chart to ...

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