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Copy a bunch of Excel cells into PowerPoint or even create a table within PowerPoint itself and type in some data — this is something that can be difficult for most audiences to comprehend because figures don’t show any trends, at least no visual trends. The solution typically is to add a chart on your slide that’s based on the same data so that you can compare two or more sets of values more visually and intuitively. However, there may be times when you need to show both the chart and the underlying data. To make this possible, you can use PowerPoint’s Data Table option — this way, not only you get the pictorial representation of the values, but also get to show the same values in the form of a table right below the chart.
Learn about the Data Table for charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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In this issue, we first explore Sam Horn’s amazing keynote session at the recently concluded Presentation Summit conference. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about reordering objects, and ways to draw a perfect circle. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can explore ways to work with data within charts. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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OK — you want to draw a square box on your slide — and none of the options within the Shapes gallery are called “Box” or “Square”! Yes, there’s a Rectangle option but the shapes drawn using this option almost never have the same width and height. The solution may be to manually resize the Rectangle so that it has the equal proportions of a Square but that again is a long process — don’t you want something easier and quicker? The short answer must be Yes! We already showed you how to draw a perfect circle. Now, we’ll show you how to draw a perfect square in PowerPoint 2013 using those same principles.
Learn how to draw a square in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Jamie Garroch, CEO of GMARK Ltd., founded the company in 2009 to provide presentation professionals with PowerPoint software, content and training. Jamie uses a range of presentation and e-learning tools on PC and Mac from PowerPoint to Keynote, Adobe CS and iSpring for presentations and Articulate Storyline for e-learning. He also uses PowerPoint as a programming environment to create authoring automation for his company’s productivity needs, custom add-ins for clients and off-the-shelf products for presentation designers.
In this conversation, Jamie discusses the new Color Swatch add-in for PowerPoint 2003.
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Most of the time, you must start from scratch and then insert a new chart on your PowerPoint slide. This of course brings up Excel with some dummy data — and indeed you can type in your own data to replace this dummy data. However, what if you already have some data that’s within an Excel sheet — why can’t you use that data to create your PowerPoint chart? Why does PowerPoint in fact insist that you use the new Excel sheet and not any of your existing Excel sheets? And even if you must use that new Excel sheet, where does that sheet reside — and can’t you bring in your own data to that sheet in a way that does not make you type everything all over again? Wow — that’s a bunch of very genuine questions — this article will attempt to provide you with some answers!
Learn how to use already available Excel data to create charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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