"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 ...

When you want to visually imply growth, steps, directions, output or even a process, you might choose an arrow shape. Arrows are one of the most commonly used shapes in PowerPoint, and fortunately ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a development that allows anyone to create interactive 3D content, XPAND 3D today introduced its new PowerPoint 3D plug-in, an application that lets users easily add 3D ...

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, ...

A data set that occurs frequently consists of the values or the percentage breakdown of several categories for two time periods. A common way of plotting these data is to use a pair of pie charts.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This article is more than 10 years old. This week I invited a guest blogger, ...