lends itself to charts that are less formal and less businesslike in nature. In fact, what you need in these cases is something more like an illustration than a chart. New chart features in PowerPoint ...

While PowerPoint allows you to create interactive charts in slides, Microsoft Excel allows you to create and manipulate chart data in many more ways.

How to Add Two Lines to a Powerpoint Chart. "Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts," says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen.

You can easily draw in PowerPoint to mark and edit slideshows, or create your own designs, especially if you're using a touchscreen.

A spinning hollow circle is a great way to suggest the passing of time in a PowerPoint show. Susan Harkins shows you how to make this simple animation.