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
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font until labels show up horizontally Horizontal axis: no tick marks No chart title, instead I use
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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
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(images) Flip horizontal, vertical Rotate 90 degrees left, right
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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)
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object to the bottom right of the original one. Often you want to copy objects horizontally, or
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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
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Finding space for labels of small pie slices
. Adding readable labels becomes difficult as the horizontal space for them is small. I find it
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better to rotate the pie chart in such a way that the smaller pieces get in a horizontal position, so
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Infographic overload
line at the top, below that a horizontal bar with the Burger King logo, followed by a horizontal bar
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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
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labels for example are always placed outside the horizontal bar. The chart below (ripped out of its
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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
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”, also the horizontal axis talks about “decline” instead of “growth”, so a positive number is
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Learning from impressionists
in 3 horizontal bands, has a strong diagonal cutting across, and the flags and steam clouds from
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Manually adjusting fonts
a deep quote) and see how letters line up vertically. Standard horizontal and vertical spacing in
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Pretty, but hard to understand
been clearer with (fatter) horizontal bars. Original design by Chasing Delicious.
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Sync those charts
horizontal axis are not aligned The scale of the vertical axis is different for each chart
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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
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, which forces me to make horizontally stretched slide designs. (A cheat: put the headline across a
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Fly through that circle!
PowerPoint 2010 here). Draw 2 circle shapes Center them horizontally and vertically Select the shapes
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How can we make that growth look more impressive?
. Maybe squeezing the chart horizontally while keeping the vertical size the same fixes that.
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Presenting survey results
Here is a chart I usually use to present the result of a survey: Horizontal bar chart, stripped of
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FedEx shows: no need for an elaborate PowerPoint template
elaborate PowerPoint template (with colorful horizontal bars, big logos, and other graphics repeated on
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How to position a logo
: violate the logo style rules and crop them out). For horizontal alignment of a number of logos in a
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Stick to your grid
The grid is the imaginary set of horizontal and vertical lines along which the objects on your
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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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