In PowerPoint, users would use graphs or charts to explain their data in detail so that their audience understands their presentation. In this tutorial, we will explain how to animate a line graph ...

Select the "Line" chart and click "OK" to open the Chart in the PowerPoint window. Change the column headers, categories and values according to your data.

We now show a bar graph plotted with the data from the labels of Figure 3. Notice that the sales growth now appears to be fairly linear, while Figure 3 suggests rapid growth in recent years.

You can manually create a custom Gantt chart from scratch using the native Chart menu of PowerPoint. In its Chart menu, you can find several types of standard charts including line, bar, area, pie ...

It's easy to throw your data up on a scatter or bar chart, slip it into a presentation, and convince yourself you'll do the explaining, but that's a terrible shortcut.