Charts in Powerpoint - best way?

[Mike Hinchcliffe]

Hi folks, looking for some input on the best way to create charts in a
powerpoint presentation. I'm building a toolbox that helps our people
create presentations, and one of the areas we're struggling with is finding
the best approach to help people create brand standard charts -set color
scheme, layout etc.

We've tried this with MSGraph, but seems we're running into one issue after
another - color palette limitations, chart resizing issues, limited object
model visibility etc. Now wondering about going back to excel, maybe by
using small chart sheets that we resize by changing page layout and then
embed into the powerpoint presentation.

Really just looking for input on how people have dealt with this problem and
which approch folks are settling on. Obviously none of them are perfect,
would appreciate peoples' thoughts.

Many thanks
Mike

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If you have the luxury of choosing Excel over MS Graph, I'd do so.
In a heartbeat. But only if I *had* to wait that long. ;-)

Brian and a few of the others can give you more of the lowdown on working with
Excel. I'm the one who always gets stuck with MSGraph when we double-date.

Quite apart from that, a solution based on Excel will have longer legs ...
unless you do a custom install, MSGraph is no longer part of Office 2007;
PowerPoint 2007 calls up Excel to do its chart-lifting now.