Helping you with presenting, PowerPoint, and speaking
Have you ever seen this when you created a chart in PowerPoint? Look at the order of the items in the datasheet and in the bar chart itself. They’re the opposite of each other! If you care about the order of the data in your chart, this can be very frustrating! Fortunately, there are 2 […]
This video (part III of a series) shows you how to bring a chart from Excel to PowerPoint while accomplishing 3 goals: Maintaining the look of the presentation Keeping the presentation file small Maintaining the security of your data View Part I: Creating the chart in PowerPoint View Part II: Using a chart that you’ve […]
How do you create a chart in PowerPoint that looks like this? It has: 2 different Y-axes each with a different scale 2 different chart types–column and line I learned this feature of PowerPoint charts recently from my friend and fellow PowerPoint MVP, Echo Swinford. She is one of the top experts in the world […]
After deciding on the points you want to make in your upcoming presentation, you need to figure out how to support those points. For example, if your point is that your company has the largest market share in the industry, quote the research (hopefully done by a third party) that says so. This applies to […]
Graphs (called charts in PowerPoint) are an important part of many presentations, especially ones with financial data. In this tip, I include the basics for creating a readable, effective graph. For a special technique, read another tip, ” Push PowerPoint charting options to the limit.” First, some basic steps: Make sure that your data is […]
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