Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint (365/2019)

Learn to create information-rich, visually compelling PowerPoint presentations driven by Excel data.

Introduction

• Create information-rich, visually compelling presentations
• What you need

1. Getting Excel Content into PowerPoint

• Office themes: The basics
• Copy and paste content from Excel
• Link and embed data and objects
• Create charts and tables in PowerPoint

2. Clean Up and Format Excel Data for Presentations

• Restore missing data
• Work with tables
• Display large values compactly

3. Craft Graphics for Presentations

• Add a slicer for a table
• Build an infographic with a picture fill
• Build a Gantt chart from a stacked bar
• Create a treemap chart
• Illustrate trends with sparklines
• Map geospatial data with a filled map

4. Highlight Data with Conditional Formatting

• Highlight high-value cells
• Use data bars

5. Summarize Details with Pivots

• Create a PivotTable
• Format a PivotTable
• Create a PivotChart
• Review and format Excel objects

6. Finalize in PowerPoint

• Paste Excel content into PowerPoint
• Use the PowerPoint Designer
• Animate a chart
• Options for animating tables
• Linking to a table or chart

Conclusion

• Next steps