Staring at a blank slide while wrestling with raw numbers still slows teams down. A 2025 SlideSpeak study found chart ...

"Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts," says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. It's not that charts are bad in a PowerPoint presentation, but ...

True PowerPoint Warriors know that you can -- with Herculean levels of effort -- animate charts and graphs in PowerPoint. Of course, not many people do it, because it's just not that easy to do. What ...

Follow the steps below to create and insert a Sunburst chart in PowerPoint. The diagram is inserted into the slide, along with an Excel spreadsheet. Enter your data into the spreadsheet. Close the ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

You can buck the stereotype of PowerPoint presentations as bullet-pointed snoozefest. PowerPoint has a wealth of new graphics, layout, and animation features to liven up your deck. We’ll focus on how ...

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, ...

The only thing worse than sitting through a bad PowerPoint presentation is being the one responsible for a bad PowerPoint presentation. Standing up there alone before dozens of strangers (or, even ...

Prior to Office 2007, the Drawing toolbar in Office applications contained a button labeled "Insert Diagram or Organization Chart." The toolbar no longer offers the button, but Office programs still ...