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What is Microsoft Graph ?

The Microsoft Graph application that is used in PowerPoint is almost identical to that used to create charts in Excel.

Microsoft Graph supports several chart types and different types of charts are better suited to displaying different types of data.

So if you know how to create charts in Excel there are only a few subtle differences.

When you create or edit a chart. Microsoft Graph comes to life.

Rather than opening up another window, Microsoft Graph takes over the PowerPoint window and replaces the PowerPoint menus and toolbars with its own.

To insert a chart on an existing slide choose Insert > Chart then just place and size the chart. When a graph is successfully customised save the graph as a custom chart type.

Charts Datasheet – View > Datasheet. To edit existing information select the cell and press F2

You can always change the value of single data series items by dragging the data member (only 2D charts though). Just click the data series and drag with the mouse although it is not that accurate

In 3D charts you cannot drag & drop data values

Default Fill Colours

Default Line Colours

Difference with charts in Excel

Things to Remember

This is actually a separate application that uses OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) to insert objects from one application into another.