adding charts to your presentation
allows you to communicate data
in a visually compelling way to insert a
chart
go to insert then hover over
chart you have a couple of different
options
if you want to create a chart from
scratch you can choose the chart type
if you instead want to import a chart
that you previously made in google
sheets
click from sheets a new window opens
with all of your spreadsheets
choose the one that has the chart you
want then click
select in the next window
select the chart that you want to import
then make sure that
link to spreadsheet is checked this is
important
if you uncheck this option you won't be
able to edit your chart
after you import it when you're ready
click
import the chart is added to your slide
if you want you can resize it by
clicking and dragging the sizing handles
use one of the handles in the corner to
prevent the chart from stretching out of
proportion
you can also click and drag the chart to
reposition it
in order to edit the chart you have to
open it in google sheets
click the drop down in the top right
corner and choose
open source it may take a second or two
but the google sheet will
open and you can make your edit
to make formatting changes to the chart
right click
and choose chart style in the pane that
opens
you can control virtually every aspect
of the chart's appearance
for example if you want to remove the
title click the chart and access titles
drop down
then delete the text in the title field
there the title is gone this will work
well for our example because there is
already a title on the slide in the
presentation
you can also make changes to the data
that the chart uses
in this example the number 250 was a
typo
it was supposed to say 25. so
i'll change it and the chart will update
ok let's go back to the tab with our
google slides presentation
there should now be an update button in
the top right corner of the chart
if the update button isn't there try
refreshing the web page
that should solve the problem to update
your chart
simply click update the changes that you
made in google sheets are now reflected
in your presentation
that's how you import a chart that was
previously created using google sheets
but what if you need to create a chart
from scratch
if that's the case go to insert
chart and then choose the style that you
want
a chart will be inserted with default
styling and
sample data once again you can only edit
the chart from within google sheets
so click the drop down and choose open
source the google sheet that opens was
automatically created when you inserted
the chart
from here you can edit the data and
chart styling
just as you would any other chart in
google sheets
just make sure that you remember to
update the chart in your presentation
after you finish making your changes
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