From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
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Adding a chart in powerpoint - PowerPoint Tutorial
From the course: PowerPoint: Creating an Infographic
Adding a chart in powerpoint
- [Instructions] Now the key to most infographics is information or rather data. And in this lesson, we're going to be talking about how to create your own charts using your own Excel data. Now, to add a chart in PowerPoint, most of you can probably see that if you go to the insert tab, there is an option to click on chart and easily create a chart. The problem with this, and let's just choose bar chart here and Stacked Bar, if we choose this option and click okay, PowerPoint will insert a chart in the middle of your infographic and open up this pseudo-Excel spreadsheet with this fake sample data. And then you have to type in yourself your own Excel data, which can be rather time-consuming and not to mention lead to potential errors, 'cause you're retyping all that data. This is not my favorite method for creating a chart in PowerPoint. Let me just close this out and press undo, Ctrl + Z. My preferred method is to simply copy and paste that data or that chart from Excel. Jumping over…
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