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Creating a chart in PowerPoint

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Creating a chart in PowerPoint

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- [Instructor] Let's add a chart to our presentation. Personally, I don't use charts very often, but I do find that when I need to communicate numbers-based information to my audience, it can be an effective way to show the relationship between data points. You have several charting options available inside of PowerPoint. This is just a quick overview of the essential features. Let's navigate to our table. This is the information that we're going to use to create a chart. So we'll click on the slide and then just right click and choose to duplicate this slide. Now we have a second copy of the data. Now I'm going to keep the title as is, but let's choose to insert a chart. I'll click on chart. You see this brings up several choices. A column chart is a useful way to compare several sets of data. For example, if you have two different results, grouped by category, like we do here, but you can also use a line chart to…

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