PowerPoint 07 - Chart Area over slide

[Luis]

This might be a really goofy question, and I just want to see if this is the
"right" practice or not.

I'm noticing a lot of PowerPoint 07 presentations that have graph charts
(bar graphs) with the chart area going OUTSIDE of the slide. However, the
actual data (bar graphs) is still within the slide.

Is this okay?

I don't know if this is a common practice, and if it is, that's cool. I was
just curious if that's how it is supposed to be or if the chart areas need to
be formatted to fit WITHIN the slide.

Thank you,

Luis

 

[Rick Altman]

This is reminiscent of what I jokingly tell the girls on the softball team
that I coach:

Throw the ball first, then declare
what your target was afterward.

 

[Echo S]

I wouldn't call it a best practice, maybe not even a "right" practice. But
it does happen. People do weird things in PPT.

I wonder if these are leftovers from PPT 2003? I think the chart sizing was
a lot harder to deal with in 2003, so people often dragged the chart area
waaaaay out like that in order to resize the chart. It seems much more
straightforward (at least to me, it does!) in PPT 2007, so I think it won't
happen there as often.

Even though it's not something people *should* be doing, I don't know that
it will actually hurt anything, either.

 

[Echo S]

I so miss playing softball. ;-)

(I was actually really good.)

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