1. In PowerPoint, click the placeholder that you want to contain the chart. 2. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click Chart. 3. In the Insert Chart dialog box, click a chart, and then click OK. (Office Excel 2007 opens in a split window and displays sample data on a worksheet.) 4. In Excel, to replace the sample data, click a cell on the worksheet, and then type the data that you want. (You can also replace the sample axis labels in Column A and the legend entry name in Row 1. Note: After you update the worksheet, the chart in PowerPoint updates automatically with the new data.) 5. When you are finished inputting the data in Excel, on the File menu, click the Close button.

4. Add transitions between slides. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 includes many different types of slide transitions. If you'd like to add the same transition to all the slides in your presentation, do the following:

1. On the left side of the slide window, in the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab. 2. Select the slide thumbnails of the slides that you want to apply slide transitions to. 3. On the Animations tab, in the Transition To This Slide group, click a slide transition effect. (To see more transition effects, in the Quick Styles list, click the More button.) 4. To set the slide transition speed between the current slide and the next slide, in the Transition To This Slide group, click the arrow next to Transition Speed, and then select the speed that you want. 5. In the Transition To This Slide group, click Apply to All.

5. Apply an animation effect to text or an object.

To apply a built-in animation effect in Office PowerPoint 2007, do the following: 1. Select the text or object that you want to animate. 2. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, select the animation effect that you want from the Animate list.