Back in PowerPoint land
You read at the beginning that charts can be created in PowerPoint too, and the same chart templates experience is available for your delight there as well.
Go to the Insert tab in PowerPoint and click the Chart button from the Illustrations group in the ribbon. In this simplified version of the window you can again click the Template tab and choose your chart type:
emplates folder highlighted in the 'Change Chart Type' option in Excel, with a different bar chart thumbnail.
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that the chart template thumbnail looks different here. That’s because when you create a chart this way, the data is entered afterwards, so PowerPoint uses dummy data to create the preview. Once you enter the same data, the chart looks the same.
In what is probably one of the strangest experiences phone number austria in Microsoft Office, it’s possible to get into a situation where the colours you see in the chart are not those reflected in the PowerPoint colour picker. The reason this happens is that Excel embeds a copy of the theme colours inside the chart when using chart templates. They call this ‘theme override’ and you can read more about it at the end of this Microsoft article.
When a template-based chart is copied outside of Excel and into PowerPoint or Word, the embedded theme colours inside the chart take priority over the theme in use within the PowerPoint presentation or Word document. This slide has such a chart and you can see that whilst the chart series is blue, PowerPoint thinks it’s red!
Chart theme override example
This is another reason why it’s so important to use the same theme across all of your Office apps.
Getting to grips with chart and graph templates can really save you time when putting together presentations. If you’re hooked on better ways to work with graphs and charts in PowerPoint, you’ll love this masterclass on PowerPoint graphs & charts.
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