How to create charts in PowerPoint: instruction

Creating charts is available in any office suite and applies to each program included in them. With their help, you can many times increase the information content of any document. This feature is especially important for presentations, so many users are wondering how to create a chart in PowerPoint 2010? However, looking ahead, we say that the manual, which will be described below, is common to all versions of this program.

How to create charts in PowerPoint?

The convenience of diagrams in PowerPoint cannot be overestimated. They are inserted into the presentation as a separate media file, which, in turn, implies that you can make changes to them in real time and edit individual elements in every possible way. But how to set up diagrams, we will figure it out a bit later, now we will offer methods for creating diagrams in PowerPoint.

Method number 1: insert into the text area

If you create a presentation from scratch, then it will be easiest for you to use this particular method, which involves inserting a chart into the text area. But on the other hand, using this method it will be possible to insert the desired element into the document most quickly.

1. Launch the presentation editor.
2. Create a new document or a new slide in an existing one.
3. There are two areas in the new sheet: for inserting a title and text. In the second area, options for inserting elements are proposed, among which there is a diagram. Click the chart icon in the text box of the slide.
4. A new window will appear. Select a chart view. This is done on the side panel located on the left. If you were thinking how to create a pie chart in PowerPoint, then for this it is at this stage that you need to choose one.
5. Select a display style. This is done on the top panel of the window. You can choose both linear display and volumetric. By the way, you can familiarize yourself with examples of the future diagram in the center of the window.
6. Click the Ok button.

As soon as you complete all the above steps, a chart will be inserted into the slide. However, it should be borne in mind that it occupies a separate area, and in some cases, arranging other elements on the slide becomes problematic.

Method number 2: standard creation

There is a second way to create charts in PowerPoint. In general, it is practically no different from the previous one, only the window with the parameters is called up differently. Consider this in more detail:

1. Create a new presentation or open an existing one.
2. Go to the slide where you want to insert the chart.
3. Go to the "Insert" tab.
4. On the toolbar of this category, click on the "Chart" button, which is located in the "Images" group.
5. A familiar window appears with options for inserting the chart.

All further actions do not differ from those that were described in the previous method starting from the fourth paragraph. You need to determine the type of chart, select its style and click the “Ok” button.

Method 3: paste from Excel

If you previously created a chart in Excel, then it can be inserted into PowerPoint without any problems. This method compares favorably with the previous ones in that in the end you can change the values ​​in a spreadsheet editor, and observe the result directly in the presentation. So, let's figure out how to create charts in PowerPoint by inserting them from Excel:

1. Open a presentation or create a new one.
2. Scroll to the slide you need.
3. Go to the "Insert" tab.
4. On the tool ribbon in the "Text" category, click on the "Object" button.
5. In the window that appears, set the switch to “Create from file”.
6. Click the Browse button.
7. In the file manager window, go to the folder with the table in which there is a chart.
8. Select it, specify a sheet and click "Open."
9. Click the Ok button.

After that, the chart from the table will be inserted into the presentation. If you wish, in the file selection window you can check the box next to “Link”, so that when changing in Excel, the chart also changes in PowerPoint.

Chart setup

So we’ve figured out how to create diagrams in PowerPoint, now we’ll go directly to the question of how to configure them.

In order to set values ​​in a chart, you need to do the following:

1. Double-click on the chart.
2. A table appears, with an interface similar to the "Excel" one. In it you can notice the names of individual points in the diagram and their meanings directly.
3. Enter the values ​​you need in the appropriate cells. Here you can also change the names of some elements by simply entering them in the appropriate cells.
4. After that, click on the empty space of the slide to close the table.

This way you can change all parameters. Now you know not only how to create diagrams in PowerPoint, but also how to configure them.

Conclusion

So we figured out all the features in working with charts in PowerPoint presentations. As you can see, inserting them is not so difficult, in principle, as well as setting up. By the way, many users are thinking about how to make diagrams in PowerPoint on the phone, however, unfortunately, this is not possible, since this tool is simply not available in the application.