Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000

Understanding Charts in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you can use the Microsoft Graph application to create powerful charts in your presentation or you can insert charts created in another application such as Excel. Using Microsoft Graph from within PowerPoint is the easiest alternative if you need to create a chart from scratch and don't need to apply Excel's calculation and formula cap- abilities to your chart data. If you've already created a chart in Excel or you need to analyze complex data, then inserting an Excel chart is the best solution.

In addition to the common chart types such as column, bar, line, and pie, you can also create doughnut, radar, cone, bubble, stock, and other chart types.

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