1. Using Charts in a Presentation
Microsoft Powerpoint 2013
Lesson 6
Using Charts in a Presentation
Microsoft Official Academic Course, Microsoft Word 2013
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2. A PowerPoint Chart
Charts can help your audience understand relationships among numerical data.
It can compare multiple data series with each series represented by a different color or pattern.
The legend on the chart helps explain what certain things on your chart represent.
The axis labels explain the meaning of the numeric values.
Optional elements like gridlines behind a chart can help make the chart more readable to your audience.
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3. Insert a Chart
Once you have created a chart in PPT you can easily modify the data on which the chart is based, choose a different type of chart, change the layout and modify its formats.
By default, the column chart is the chart used by PPT.
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4. Insert a Chart
Excel opens when you create a chart in PPT and you enter the data in Excel that you want to plot on your chart.
The easiest way to
Insert a chart is to click the
Insert Chart icon in any
Content placeholder.
Another way is to click
The Insert Tab and click
Chart in the Illustrations
Group.
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5. Charts
You can edit the worksheet data any item you want by clicking the Edit Data button on the Chart Tools Design tab which appears when a chart is selected.
When you click Edit Data, a menu appears offering for you to edit the data in PPT (Edit data) or in Excel (Edit Data in Excel 2013).
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6. Chart Types:
Each PPT chart type is designed to present a specific type of data. When you create a chart, you should select the chart type that will best display your data.
Some of the most commonly used chart types are:
Column charts
Bar charts
Line charts
Pie charts
Area charts
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7. Column Charts
Generally used for showing data changes over a period of time or for comparing items.
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8. Bar charts
These are often used to compare individual items. Note that the values are displayed in horizontal rectangles.
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9. Line charts
Line charts are best used to display values over time or trends in data.
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10. Pie charts
Pie charts are used to show the relationship of an individual category to the sum of all categories.
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11. Area charts
Area charts are used to show the amount of change over time as well as total value across a trend. Like a pie chart, an area chart can show the relationship of an individual category to the sum of all values.
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12. Import an Excel Chart
You can create the chart in Excel and then copy the completed chart to PPT using the Clipboard.
Excel‘s charting tools are virtually identical to those in PPT so there is little reason to create the chart in Excel first.
But, if the chart already exists copying it to PPT. Can save you some time.
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13. Resize and Move a Chart
In addition to moving the individual elements within a chart, you can move and resize the chart itself.
The dotted areas on the chart‘s border are sizing handles.
You can resize any object by dragging a slide or corner handle of its container.
Note that if you drag a slide handle you may stretch the container and distorting its contents.
Hold down Shift to maintain the height-width ratio (the aspect ratio).
A four-headed arrow is what the insertion point looks like when you can drag.
Take Note: Optionally, you can hold down Shift while resizing to maintain the aspect ratio.
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14. Choose a Different Chart Type
It is not at all uncommon to have to modify a chart after it has been created.
Different chart types display the data series differently.
A data series consists of all the data points for a particular category.
A data point is often called a data marker. This is one point in a series.
You can change any chart type to any other type, but the result may not always be what you expect, and you may lose some data.
To change the chart type, click on the Chart Tools Design Tab and click Change Chart Type.
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15. Edit a Chart’s Data
Use the Edit Data button to reactivate the worksheet window in Excel and make your changes there.
Before you can edit chart data, you must first select the chart.
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17. Apply and Modify a Quick Layout
Chart elements are the optional parts of a chart such as the legend, title, data labels, axes, axis
labels.
You can aply Quick Layouts that
apply present combinations of
these elements.
PPT supplies several preformatted
chart layouts that you can
apply quickly to modify the
default layout.
Take Note: The thumbnails in the Chart Layout gallery show in miniature the new layout and elements of the chart.
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18. Work with a Legend
There are many options available for adding, positioning and customizing legents.
A legend is a very important chart element because without it the audience has no way of knowing what each colored bar, dot, line or pie slice represents.
Chart elemens are located to the right of the chart and is noted by the symbol.
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19. Add and Delete Chart Elements
Chart Elements are easy to identify and can easily be changed.
Each type of these options like Axes,
Axes Titles, Gridlines, etc. Opens a
Submenu that includes basic
Choices including None which allows
You to remove the elements.
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20. Apply and Modify a Chart Style
Chart Styles provide instant formatting to change the look of a chart.
A style can change colors and borders of data markers, apply effects to the data markers, and apply color to the chart or plot area.
You can use a style to format a chart if you don‘t have time to adjust formatting of chart elements.
Use the Chart Tools Design Tab to access the Chart styles.
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21. Change the Chart Area Fill
To make a chart really grab your audience‘s attention, you can change its fill.
When you change the chart area fill,
You format the entire area within the chart‘s
Frame.
When choosing a fill for the chart area you
Have familiar choices: theme color, picture,
Gradient, or texture.
Make sure that the colors harmonize with
The current theme and that pictures or textures
Don‘t overwhelm the other chart elements.
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22. Change the Chart Area Fill
Caution: Don‘t confuse the chart area with the plot area.
The chart area includes everything inside the chart‘s frame.
The plot area includes only the area within the chart‘s frame where the data is plotted. The plot area typically excludes the extra elements like the legend and chart title.
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23. Change the Chart Area Fill
When formatting parts of a chart, it is sometimes difficult to make sure you have selected the element you want to change with a simple mouse click.
Use the Chart Elements list in the Current Selection group on the Chart Tools Format tab to help you select the element you want or just use it to double-check that you have indeed selected the element you want.
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24. Apply a Border to the Chart Area
By default, the chart area does not display a border.
The lack of a border allows the chart to blend in with the background of the slide.
If you prefer, you can apply a border that clearly identifies the chart area. If that is the case, you need to add a border to your chart.
Click the outer border of the chart first. On the Chart Tools Format tab, click Format Selection in the Current selection group to open the Format Chart Area task pane.
Then click on the Border heading to expand the border options.
Notice you can change the border color and the width.
To see the changes you have made, simply click off the chart area.
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25. Apply Formatting Effects
You can apply some of the same types of effects to charts that you can apply to other objects in PPT.
You can add bevels, 3D effects and shadows.
Some of these effects apply to individual elements in teh chart, while others apply to the chart as a whole.
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26. Format a Chart’s Data Series
A chart‘s data series is the visual display of the actual data points.
Data series can be columns, bars, lines or pie slices.
You can give a chart considerably more visual appeal by customizing data series fill and border options and by applying effects.
If you want to format a single data bar, click it twice. To format the entire data series, click it once.
Use the Chart Tools Format tab
Take Note: If you want to format a single data bar, click on it twice.
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27. Adjust a Chart Axis
PPT automatically determines the numeric scale to be used for the chart‘s axes, with the minimum point usually being 0 and the max slightly higher than the largest value to be plotted.
You can adjust the axis scale.
You can click on the axis you would like to change or use the Add Chart Elements in the Chart Layouts group.
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