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If the data required for your chart is already within Excel, then you can create your chart in Excel itself, and then copy-paste it into aPowerPoint slide. Alternatively you can directly insert a new chart within PowerPoint. To learn more, follow these steps:. Open your presentation and where youwant to place your Chart.
Alternatively, launch to see the. ClickCancel in this gallery to open a blank presentation with a new slide.
Click the button in the Home tabof the to bring up the Layout gallery as shown inFigure 1. Select any of the layouts that include a Content placeholder. These are highlighted in redwithin Figure 1. Note: When you insert a chart, you may not see both PowerPoint and Excel windows placed side by side. Instead, you may see onlyExcel sheet hiding the PowerPoint window entirely. But you can always rearrange the windows as for your convenience.
Now, replace the dummy data in the Excel sheet with your own data following these guidelines:. Select a cell in the Excel sheet, and enter the new value. You can move to the cell towards the right in the Excel sheet by pressing the Tab key.
Move to cell down bypressing the Enter ( Return) key. To insert a new column in the Excel sheet, right-click the header of the next column and choose the Insertoption.
To insert a new row in the Excel sheet, right-click the header of the next row and choose the Insert option.Remember, column or row content inserted this way ends up as a new series value in your chart. You can also delete columns and rows.
Just select the row or column header, right-click, and choose the Deleteoption. Figure 6 above shows dummy chart data. The changed data can be seen in Figure 7.Figure 7: Changed data in the Excel data sheet. Any change you make in the Excel sheet (refer to Figure 7) will reflect as a change in the chart withinPowerPoint slide, as shown in Figure 8.Figure 8: Updated chart in PowerPoint 2011. Once you have replaced the dummy data with the actual data, close Microsoft Excel.
In Figure 9 you can see thenew chart inserted with the data you entered in the Excel sheet.Figure 9: Inserted Chart. To make more changes to the data, select the chart and within the Data group click the Edit button(highlighted in red in Figure 10). This opens the Excel sheet again, where further changes to the datacan be made.
To learn more how to edit chart data, refer to ourtutorial.Figure 10: Edit button within Data group. Gears for PowerPoint (Series 01)All these gears are native PowerPoint shapes.
You can recolor them, add effects, and do more, all inside PowerPoint. Results which wouldhave taken hours to achieve now take less than a minute! Have fun using the gear graphics, and make your audience take notice! All thesegears can be rotated and resized, as required. Since they are essentially pictures, all types of edits that you can do with pictures workwith them too!, you’ll save so much time thatyou can use doing something else!
I have this problem too, in PPT 2013 - which is in the original post. This happens fairly frequently, and I thought there must be someone who has figured out how to fix it by now.
Chart was created in PowerPoint with PowerPoint chart tools, and datawas hand entered - not copied from an external excel file or something. Presentation is emailed back and forth, and now I cannot edit the data on the chart with the 'Edit Data' function, which I know perfectly well how to find. I had done about 20 minutesworth of work customizing the colors and tweaking the fonts and line widths, so it would be great not to have to go through all of that again just to add another year (column) to the chart. I suspect there is some type of 'metadata' that gets removed whenthe PPT file is emailed. However, obviously the source data is still in there somewhere or it wouldn't be showing up on the slide. Is there some way to cause PPT to rebuild whatever internal data table it had, so we can see/edit the data? This would bea 10 second change if 'edit data' worked.
As far as exactly what I see happening when I can't edit the data - NOTHING, as in no reaction at all. The button is there, but when I choose either 'edit data' or 'edit data in excel 2013' nothing happens. Not sure how else to explain that. No dialogue boxes, no timers, NOTHING. Also, the 'Select Data' button does nothing on this chart. I can build another chart, and save the file and open it, and use edit data on that one - but not this one. PPTstill knows it's a chart.
I can edit the parameters and colors through the chart formatting options. Just can't see or edit the data anymore. I have this problem too, in PPT 2013 - which is in the original post.
This happens fairly frequently, and I thought there must be someone who has figured out how to fix it by now. Chart was created in PowerPoint with PowerPoint chart tools, anddata was hand entered - not copied from an external excel file or something.
Presentation is emailed back and forth, and now I cannot edit the data on the chart with the 'Edit Data' function, which I know perfectly well how to find. I had done about 20 minutesworth of work customizing the colors and tweaking the fonts and line widths, so it would be great not to have to go through all of that again just to add another year (column) to the chart. I suspect there is some type of 'metadata' that gets removed whenthe PPT file is emailed. However, obviously the source data is still in there somewhere or it wouldn't be showing up on the slide. Is there some way to cause PPT to rebuild whatever internal data table it had, so we can see/edit the data?
This would bea 10 second change if 'edit data' worked. As far as exactly what I see happening when I can't edit the data - NOTHING, as in no reaction at all. The button is there, but when I choose either 'edit data' or 'edit data in excel 2013' nothing happens. Not sure how else to explain that. No dialogue boxes, no timers, NOTHING.
Also, the 'Select Data' button does nothing on this chart. I can build another chart, and save the file and open it, and use edit data on that one - but not this one.
PPTstill knows it's a chart. I can edit the parameters and colors through the chart formatting options.
Just can't see or edit the data anymore. Please help!I work in a law firm and had an attorney have this exact same problem today with PowerPoint 2013, and the fact that you mentioned the metadata getting removed was actually the culprit. We tested this with our firm's metadata tool (Microsystem's '3B MetadataWarning', which activates upon emailing a copy of document to an external recipient) using a PowerPoint file containing inserted chart tools and manually-entered data (not copied from any external file); and the resulting email attachment contained my charts,but the Edit Data feature did not work. Just thought I'd add my two cents to confirm. I have had a similar problem to AEOlsen, Steven Rindsberg, and AJ Richardson:If I start a new slide, insert a chart using the buttons on the new slide (to have a slide with a table / chart / text / etc), and pick a chart type, then powerpoint shows me a data table with dummy data. If I modify the data or even just close the datatable, then when I click on 'Select Data', 'Edit Data', or 'Edit Data in Excel', the data table does not reappear - essentially nothing happens.
Note I did not try to copy data from elsewhere, and I am not working with linked data.Checking processes in Task Manager I see that an Excel process is active. When I close Powerpoint the process does not stop. If I try again to create a graphic in the manner above then I see another Excel process is active (2 are running) and both stay activeeven after closing Powerpoint.Of course this happened while I was rushing to complete a presentation. One event that seemed to occur at the start was that powerpoint crashed while I was trying to modify a graph from a colleague's presentation. At first I thought my presentation was corruptedsomehow, but I found that I could not modify data in any presentation on my computer. When using Powerpoint on other systems, of course, everything works fine.
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