10 steps to clean up a PowerPoint/Excel data chart
steps I take to clean things up: Horizontal axis: 2pt line instead of 0.75pt Horizontal axis: smaller font until labels show up horizontally Horizontal axis: no tick marks No chart title, instead I use
The 19 buttons you need in your PowerPoint toolbar
the 19 buttons that I use all the time: Save Send to back Group and ungroup Distribute horizontally (images) Flip horizontal, vertical Rotate 90 degrees left, right
Copying PowerPoint objects and keeping alignment
(movement is locked horizontally or vertically) Release the mouse button Thank you Titus Tielens (see his books on PowerPoint - in Dutch) object to the bottom right of the original one. Often you want to copy objects horizontally, or
What's in my toolbar
larger image). Save Left, bottom, middle, right, top align Horizontal, vertical distribution Send to back Crop Flip horizontal, vertical Rotate
Finding space for labels of small pie slices
. Adding readable labels becomes difficult as the horizontal space for them is small. I find it better to rotate the pie chart in such a way that the smaller pieces get in a horizontal position, so
Infographic overload
line at the top, below that a horizontal bar with the Burger King logo, followed by a horizontal bar
Putting data labels where they work best
horizontal bars where you would expect the axis labels to be. I am fine with this approach. The relative labels for example are always placed outside the horizontal bar. The chart below (ripped out of its
Don't make them study the graph
vertical axis is “low is good, high is bad”, and the horizontal axis is “left is bad, right is good ”, also the horizontal axis talks about “decline” instead of “growth”, so a positive number is
Learning from impressionists
in 3 horizontal bands, has a strong diagonal cutting across, and the flags and steam clouds from
Manually adjusting fonts
a deep quote) and see how letters line up vertically. Standard horizontal and vertical spacing in
Pretty, but hard to understand
been clearer with (fatter) horizontal bars. Original design by Chasing Delicious.
Sync those charts
horizontal axis are not aligned The scale of the vertical axis is different for each chart
4:3 or 16:9?
SlideMagic, I used a 4:3 canvas, but use the extra horizontal space of a 16:9 screen to add your , which forces me to make horizontally stretched slide designs. (A cheat: put the headline across a
Fly through that circle!
PowerPoint 2010 here). Draw 2 circle shapes Center them horizontally and vertically Select the shapes
How can we make that growth look more impressive?
. Maybe squeezing the chart horizontally while keeping the vertical size the same fixes that.
Presenting survey results
Here is a chart I usually use to present the result of a survey: Horizontal bar chart, stripped of
FedEx shows: no need for an elaborate PowerPoint template
elaborate PowerPoint template (with colorful horizontal bars, big logos, and other graphics repeated on
How to position a logo
: violate the logo style rules and crop them out). For horizontal alignment of a number of logos in a
Stick to your grid
The grid is the imaginary set of horizontal and vertical lines along which the objects on your
Reduce the leading of large font sizes
Leading is the horizontal spacing between lines of text. For regular font sizes, PowerPoint adjusts
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