PowerPoint Inserting Charts into Slides
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Charts are a visual method for presenting numbers, statistics, percents, comparisons and other items in a PowerPoint slide. Maybe you have tracked temperatures for the past three months, and want to make a visual chart for your audience to see. Or, you might have a chart showing how much money is spent by your school for supplies, music, and sports. Any idea that has numbers behind it can be displayed using a variety of chart types. There are bar graphs, pie charts, scatter grams, and a plethora of other chart types to present your data.
If you cannot see how your chart looks, have someone with vision look at it, and help make adjustments.
Do the following to learn and practice the skill of inserting a chart into a PowerPoint slide.
Note: If you need to edit the text in the slide, hit Escape one time, Tab to the area you want to edit, hit the Enter key one time to move into the Edit View and all the text will be highlighted. Down arrow one time and the highlight turns off. You are now ready to arrow to the part of the text you want to edit. When you are finished hit the Escape key to move back into the Object View.
1. Hit the Windows key one time.
2. Type "powerpoint" (without the quotes).
3. Hit the Enter key one time. If you are in PowerPoint 2013, hit the Escape key one time and you will be placed in a blank slide.
4. Type "Chart One" (without the quotes).
5. Hit the Escape key one time to move to Object View.
6. Hit the Tab key one time.
7. Hit the Enter key one time.
8. Hit the backspace key one time to remove the bullet point.
9. Type "Temperature" (without the quotes).
10. Hit the Enter key two times.
11. There are a number of methods to insert a chart into a PowerPoint slide: Select from the following two methods, the one you feel comfortable with.
11a. Hit the Alt key, then the letter n, and finally the letter c to bring up a box that allows you to select the chart type.
11b. Hit the Alt key, down arrow one time, tab over to the "Chart" item, and hit the Enter key one time to bring up a box that allows you to select the chart type.
12. Hit the Tab key one time to move to a list of chart types.
13. Down and up arrow to see what types of charts are listed.
14. Arrow to the "Column" list item.
15. Hit the Enter key one time and a column type chart (like a bar graph) will come up, with a small Excel window in which you will be placed.
16. Hit the Enter key one time.
17. Arrow to cell B1.
18. Type "2011" (without the quotes), then Tab and type "2012" (without quotes) in cell C1, and finally, Tab one time and type "2013" (without quotes) in cell D1.
19. Move to cell A2.
20. Type "Jan" (without the quotes).
21. Hit the Enter key one time to move to cell A3.
22. Type "Feb" (without the quotes).
23. Hit the Enter one time to move to cell A4.
24. Type "March" (without the quotes).
25. Hit the Enter key one time to move to cell A5.
26. Type "April" (without the quotes).
27. Hit the Enter key one time.
28. Move to cell B2 and type a Jan temperature, then tab to cell C2 and type a Jan temperature, and finally tab to cell D2 and type a Jan temperature.
29. Move to cell B3 and type a Feb temperature, then tab to cell C3 and type a Feb temperature, and finally tab to cell D3 and type a Feb temperature.
30. Move to cell B4 and type a March temperature, then tab to cell C4 and type a March temperature, and finally tab to cell D4 and type a March temperature.
31. Move to cell B5 and type an April temperature, then tab to cell C5 and type an April temperature, and finally tab to cell D5 and type an April temperature.
32. Press Alt F4 to close the Excel window.
More steps to come...