Microsoft PowerPoint enables you to create presentations and slide shows. While a wide variety of text-, image- and object-editing features are available, PowerPoint also offers other tools to help ...

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Create a dynamic bridge between Excel and PowerPoint to automate chart updates and prevent manual copy-paste errors.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...