Advanced PowerPoint:
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Advanced PowerPoint:
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A picture is worth a thousand
words, or so the Chinese proverb says. Turning numbers into a chart can help
your audience understand what the numbers mean.What is a chart?
The two most commonly used types are Column and Pie charts.
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To Create a Chart
Start with: The Story So Far: Insert Chart
Enter DataYou must replace the default data with your own. The chart will change automatically to match.
Format ChartYou actually have a lot of control over how your chart looks. You can change the fonts, color, background, and layout. You will fix the following problems:
Unfortunately, your chart text may look more jagged than expected. Anti-aliasing does not work as well for charts in PowerPoint. If you use PowerPoint Viewer to run you show on a computer that does not have PowerPoint installed, all the fonts will be more jagged.
Add Text BoxPerhaps it is clear to you that the numbers on the Y-axis are a number of days. Some people might think it's the number of inches of rain. To make it clear, you should add a label. Unlike Excel, Microsoft Graph does not include an option to add an axis label, so you will have to add a text box yourself.
AlignWith all the editing you have done, it is likely that your title placeholder and the chart are not quite in alignment, making the slide feel unbalanced. The Drawing Bar can come to the rescue!
EvaluateView the slide full screen.
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A chart is a
way to represent numbers graphically, that is, as a picture. There are many
different types of charts.
Column
Chart: Most common choice. Good for showing a pattern of change in the
values over time or to compare sets of values.
Pie Chart:
Shows numbers as parts of a whole.
Chart
button 
Slide layout icon
You are
actually working in a supplementary program named Microsoft Graph when you are creating a chart from
scratch. The menus and toolbars change while Microsoft Graph is open. 
Undo for Last Step
Only: While
in Microsoft Graph, Undo will work only for the previous single action. There is
no list of actions to undo!
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Add a new slide after the 
from the Slide Layout task pane.
Double-click
the icon on the slide. The default chart and datasheet appear
with the default data.
Click
on the slide to close the Microsoft Graph interface. The chart is
showing on the slide.
How to handle a full Class disk
Right click on the X-axis labels (Spring, Fall). 
On the Font tab,
change the Font to Arial.
On
the Alignment tab, change the Orientation to 45º by
dragging the Text line up. The dot turns red when you are at exactly 45º.
Right
click on the Y-axis (the vertical numbers) and choose 
Change
the Font to Arial and click on OK.
The automatic
colors are chosen first from the colors in the slide color scheme and then
from standard colors.
Right
click on a light blue bar. All of the light blue bars are selected and
show handles.
If necessary, click on the Pattern tab.
Repeat for the
black bars, choosing light blue from the upper color palette.
Right
click on the legend.
On
the Placement tab, select Top.
the Text Box button on the Drawing bar.
To the left of the Y-axis, drag to create a small vertical text
box. (Exact dimensions do not matter right now.)
From the popup menu select 
If the dialog
only shows a Font tab, then you clicked inside the text box instead of on the
border. 
Text
Direction: On the Alignment tab, select the orientation for text
from bottom to top. 
Click on the
Title placeholder to select it.
the
Draw button
on the Drawing bar.
From the Draw menu, select
How
easy is it to read? Is there too much data? Could you accomplish the same
purpose with fewer data bars? Multiple charts?
