- Charts are another type of graphic
that we can add to our presentations.
So let's go ahead and add one.
So I'm going to click at the bottom of my presentation,
right-click and just add new slide,
and that should add a blank slide.
Now into this, we're going to insert a chart.
So, I'm going to select insert,
and then here we have chart.
So if I click on this,
it's going to give me this menu.
So I can select any number of different types of charts,
and there's really a very wide variety
of charts that we can use.
I'm going to select a pie chart.
Now, even within the different types of charts,
you also have different formats.
So you could do a 3d pie chart,
pie charts of pie charts, and so on.
But we're just going to select a basic pie chart,
and then I'm going to select okay.
Now this inserts a chart, and it also gives you
something that looks a lot like a spreadsheet,
and this is the data that will drive the chart.
So we can change the title of this,
actually I do like "Sales",
but let's go ahead and change
some of these other entries here.
So instead of 'first quarter',
I'm going to type in 'consumer',
and then we're going to do, for the second one,
we're going to do 'commercial',
and then we will do 'government'.
And then I only want three entries here.
So this last one we can delete.
So if you hover over one of these and right-click,
you can insert and delete rows or columns.
So I'm going to go ahead and delete that row,
and notice how the chart changes.
Now when I close this, you'll see we have the chart.
Now I can change the way the chart looks
by going into the design menu here,
and just hovering over any different
types of charts that I want.
I can change the colors of the chart.
I can also change the chart type.
So if I don't like this particular type of chart,
I can change it to maybe a bar chart, or a column,
or lines or whatever.
But I'm going to keep this a pie chart.
Now within this, this is an object,
so we can move it around.
I can also select the chart itself,
break it apart if I want.
So I could select any one of these segments, break it out,
so if you wanted it to show that,
I'm going to undo that.
I can select the title of this, move it around.
I can also format it here.
So I can add in chart elements,
such as labels, the legend and so on.
I can change the style here.
And then I can also change things
such as what's highlighted and so on.
Now when I select the chart,
I also get a format,
and this again allows me to format the shape.
So if I wanted to put an outline around that,
I could certainly do that,
or change the color or add some effects.
So charts are another type of graphical object
that you can add to your PowerPoint presentations.