PowerPoint Graphs and Charts

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PowerPoint Graphs and Charts

• Prepared for Ms. Shinkmans
• Per. 1 Class 2-26-01
• by
• Mr. Gohsler - Curriculum Technology Facilitator

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Each page in PowerPoint

• Is called a slide
• Each slide may be formatted differently
• may include photos, clipart, graphs, internet
  sites, videos or just about anything else
• You can change the colors or apply an automatic
  design to your presentation.
• Lets start creating graphs and charts!

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To Start PowerPoint

• Move the cursor to the start menu

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Starting PowerPoint

• Go up to the top of the start menu and click on
  New Office Document
• Click on Blank Presentation

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Opening PowerPoint

• You will see the screen on your right
• The slide layout that has the darker border
  around it is the one selected.
• The default is a Title slide
• Please double click on the circled chart slide

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You will need to double-click on the Insert Chart
Icon

• The next slide will show you what will come up.
• You should also know that you can insert graphs
  anywhere in your presentation by clicking on the
  Insert Chart Button
• You can also go to the Insert Menu and select the
  chart option.

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This slide is called the Chart Template - This is
what it should look like
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This Datasheet controls the information that
appears on the graph.
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Features of this Datasheet

• You can resize the window to suit your data.
• You can change any of the information by clicking
  an entering new data into the cells.
• Once you close the data sheet only your graph
  will appear.
• Heres how you get the Datasheet back.

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Changing the Data

• You can also get the datasheet by clicking on the
  graph and going to the Edit Menu and selecting
  Chart ObjectEdit.

• To change the graph again you must bring up the
  datasheet by either double-clicking on the graph
  area or failing that go to the View Menu and
  select Datasheet

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In Other Words...

• The following slides contain a quick review of
  how to make a chart in PowerPoint.

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Inserting a chart
A very quick way to insert a chart is to select
one of the chart options on the new slide
window. You get this canned chart. All you have
to do is modify the data.
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How to Make A Quick Chart

• The window with the chart looks like this

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• Simply change the data in this area (this is a
  small spreadsheet from which the chart is made)

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Here is the same chart altered!

• This is the number of different colored MMsâ
  that were in two small bags.
• Please note No candies were harmed in this
  study!

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You can change the colors and look and type of
your graph

• If you double click on your graph you may get the
  datasheet. Close that and double-click on the
  graph again and other options will come up.
• Depending on where you double-click you will come
  up with options for that particular aspect of the
  chart.
• The following slide shows some views.

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• I will be available to help you on your charts.
  Just let Ms. Shinkman know that you want help.
• Good luck and dont hesitate to ask for help!