Lesson 4: Inserting Charts
2 Learning Objectives After studying this lesson, you will be able to: Insert charts to display numerical data Link to and use data in an Excel spreadsheet to create a chart Format charts and change chart types Repair broken links to external documents Create SmartArt diagrams
Inserting Charts 3 Present financial statistics Display numerical data Microsoft Graph vs. linking to Excel Ribbon options Formatting
Creating Embedded Charts 4 Layout options: Insert Chart icon Manually insert chart
Creating Embedded Charts 5 Microsoft Graph ExcelTip! Double-click a Microsoft Graph chart and choose Convert to convert to Excel (must have Excel installed prior to converting).
Creating Embedded Charts 6 Edit in Excel Sample data Chart on slide
Modifying Charts 7 Change chart type Adjust chart style Resize chart Edit chart data Tip! If Chart Tools do not appear, make sure you have your chart selected.
Benefits of Linking to Excel 8 Maintain modularity Separates data from chart Ability to update data quickly and refresh chart Enhanced chart formatting options Additional ribbon options
Linking Excel Charts 9 Create Excel spreadsheet Create Excel chart Copy and paste chart onto PowerPoint slide Format to slide theme (default) Keep Excel format Paste as picture
Edit ing the Source (Linked) Document Edit Excel document from PowerPoint Edit by opening Excel outside of PowerPoint Requires data refresh for chart to be updated 10 Data refresh
Maintaining Healthy Links 11 Broken links can be caused by: Renaming file(s) Moving spreadsheet to a new directory Repair broken links by editing link to file Update and repair broken link(s)
SmartArt Diagrams 12 Diagram types Description
Adding Elements to SmartArt 13 SmartArt automatically resizes and scales text when adding element(s).
Lesson 4: Inserting Charts