PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

Master presenter, author and consultant Nancy Duarte says that presenters should use "visuals to communicate the story in a clear, engaging way." Animation serves the story that you're telling with ...

You can manually create a custom Gantt chart from scratch using the native Chart menu of PowerPoint. In its Chart menu, you can find several types of standard charts including line, bar, area, pie, ...

"Presenters are usually guilty of including too much data in their on-screen charts," says Garr Reynolds, author of Presentation Zen. It's not that charts are bad in a PowerPoint presentation, but ...