Therefore, using Excel to first create your charts and then importing them into PowerPoint allows you to create presentations with chart data that is more accurate.

Now PowerPoint knows you want to animate the chart’s series. There are three series and PowerPoint forces you to also animate the chart’s background for a total of four animations.

Pasting an Excel chart links the chart to PowerPoint. If you move the Excel file from its original folder location, PowerPoint won't be able to find the chart data or display the information in ...