How can you create a US map in PowerPoint representing data?

[Military Sociologist]

Does anyone know how to create a map of the US to represent data? For
example, I want to show percentage of participation in the military by state
population with the states shaded to correspond to data range.

Thanks much.
Tom

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Does anyone know how to create a map of the US to represent data? For
example, I want to show percentage of participation in the military by state
population with the states shaded to correspond to data range.

There's a program called MapPoint that does this (not sure of cost). It's now
a standalone program but used to be included as an optional addin with Excel in
... don't recall exactly ... Office 2000, perhaps?

Otherwise, you might need to insert a US map as clip art, ungroup it and
manually shade the different states.

 

[Andy Pope]

Hi,

I have an example of something similar in Excel. But once the map is
populated you can then place it in your ppt.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng12.htm

Cheers
Andy

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

I think you can also do this with BusinessObjects Xcelsius. The output from
Xcelsius is a Flash object though -- but Xcelsius automatically places it in
a PowerPoint slide for you.

 

[John Wilson]

There's a nice wmf of the US here http://msauer.mvps.org/graphics.htm

Unzip it, Insert > PPT and ungroup it twice.
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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,

I have an example of something similar in Excel. But once the map is
populated you can then place it in your ppt.
http://www.andypope.info/ngs/ng12.htm

Sweet ... thanks for that, Andy.