Making power point presentation is an art. Power point is one powerful medium for representing your views, thoughts and knowledge to the listeners. Documentation and speech delivery are also medium for expressing thoughts but they have some drawbacks, so power point presentation is an ideal way to present data and information.

Good power point presentations help you to reach your target and deliver your knowledge effectively to the users. Charts and graphs are used to make effective power point presentation. Chart is a functionality provided by Microsoft power point in which you can integrate pictorial view of data in your slides or presentation. I.e. you can present or express data in chart form. Charts and graphs represent data in picture format; as we know “A Picture speaks thousands words”, it means the audience will understand charts and graphs more than data text.

Charts in power point allow a great variety of charts to ensure you that it will catch audience attraction and explain data information in more systematic manner. Charts becomes more attractive by inserting drill down options like; one can set mouse over option and link it to access more details, one can move charts all around. Chart helps to make data representation in visual and attractive manner. Also it helps to reduce confusion about data information and its value because charts are represented in systematic and precise manner.

Flash charts are able to make your chart colorful and good looking and manage your presentation creatively. I.e. using flash charts you can customize your power point presentation. In flash charts you can animate your presentation, color theme and integrate real time data in presentation. This chart gives a good look to your presentation without compromising data. The Most interesting thing is any one (who is not familiar with Microsoft power point) can use this functionality and create presentation with a little help. Representing effective charts with greater amount of data in compact manner is special feature of charts and it save space and complexity of your presentation.

Some software is available in market for charts known as charting software which create impressive charts and table. This software generally use platform of Adobe Flash. These software are available at nominal cost or free and very easy to use.

Step to create your own chart in Microsoft PowerPoint:

1. Go to Insert menu and click on chart option. It will display a chart on your slide.
2. A table will be displayed below chart containing data or information used for chart. Change in table data will affect on the chart.
3. Go to first row and column A, enter your information for chart and press enter. This action will show change in chart also. In this way you can built a chart.
4. To edit data table, double click on a chart. It will show a symbol of table. By clicking it table will display for editing.

In this way you can easily add charts in your power point presentation.