Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint

- [Voiceover] Welcome to Data Driven Presentations with Excel and Powerpoint. In this course, I'm going show you how to use Excel data to drive your Powerpoint presentations. We'll begin with some typical organizational data that we have stored in Excel and use conditional formatting and other tools to highlight important data, pivot tables to summarize data, and spark lines and charts to create various illustrations. We'll leverage the linking and embedding features of Office to copy our Excel tables and charts, and paste them into PowerPoint.

We'll use some SmartArt, a tool available in both applications, to provide a conceptual framework, and we'll use Powerpoint's animation features to animate all of this. Finally, we'll create some links from Powerpoint directly to Excel, so you can see how to fire up a workbook directly in the middle of a presentation. If you've ever wondered how to create compelling presentations that don't take quite as much to maintain as you might imagine, then I've designed this course for you. Let's get started.