Creating charts can be both easy and difficult, it all depends upon what you want to end up with! The easiest way is to just accept all the defaults that PowerPoint provides. The difficult way is to fine tune each aspect of the chart until you have just what you wanted. While the difficult way does get the best results, you must know that between the easy and difficult ways is a third option, the clever way.
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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts in PowerPoint
Tutorial Code: 10 15 01
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