Simple Charts
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Adding simple charts to your presentations
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If you want to add a simple chart in PowerPoint, there's two main ways you can do this. You can either select the Insert Chart icon in the content box. Alternatively, you can go via the Insert menu and select Chart in there. Both bring up exactly the same menu when you've clicked on them. You get to choose which type of chart that you want. I'm just going to choose a simple pie chart and I'm just gonna hit Okay. I'm not gonna change anything else. Just hit Okay for now. And when I do that, the pie chart appears. Now you're probably thinking, where are those numbers coming from? These numbers are pre-populated by PowerPoint. So you can see here we've got four quarters of sales and we can play around with these numbers if we want to, which will update the the chart, the pie chart. We can even add additional data, so let's say we add a fifth quarter. Not that that's possible, but it will show my example. Well, fifth quarter, let's make that sales of 10, and you can see that has now updated the pie charts accordingly. So this works very, very well for simple charts. However, for more complicated charts, it's often better to create them in Excel first and then copy and paste them across, which is what we're going to do in the next video.