"Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts," says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. It's not that charts are bad in a PowerPoint presentation, but ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

You can manually create a custom Gantt chart from scratch using the native Chart menu of PowerPoint. In its Chart menu, you can find several types of standard charts including line, bar, area, pie, ...

You can buck the stereotype of PowerPoint presentations as bullet-pointed snoozefest. PowerPoint has a wealth of new graphics, layout, and animation features to liven up your deck. We’ll focus on how ...

Follow the steps below to create and insert a Sunburst chart in PowerPoint. The diagram is inserted into the slide, along with an Excel spreadsheet. Enter your data into the spreadsheet. Close the ...

True PowerPoint Warriors know that you can -- with Herculean levels of effort -- animate charts and graphs in PowerPoint. Of course, not many people do it, because it's just not that easy to do. What ...

PowerPoint 2016’s changes include new transitions and charts, and some powerful new research tools. Other features may follow the Office 2016 trend of being individually subtle, but taken as a whole ...

These charts accompany our story . Click through to that story for detailed information on PowerPoint 2010 and its features. If you’ve upgraded to PowerPoint 2010 directly from PowerPoint 2003, you’ll ...

Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean. Before you put together another PowerPoint presentation, make sure your pick the right ...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not a fan of PowerPoint (or any other slide software) – specifically the use of long bulleted lists as de facto speaker notes more for the benefit of ...