Give your tables a designer’s touch with table styles. Choose from a selection of color schemes, apply alternate row colors, add a heading row, or format a total row. Apply a table style to an existing table. Select any cell in the table.

In the Choose a SmartArt Graphic gallery, click Process, and then double-click a timeline layout.

PowerPoint uses a Bing Image Search to locate and download borders. You can search for new border images if you are connected to the Internet. On the slide where you want to add a border, click Insert > Online Pictures. Type a search phrase, like line borders or flower borders, in the Search box, then press Enter.

In PowerPoint for the web you can use the Selection pane to show or hide items on the slide or to reorder them. Select one or more shapes. On the Home or Shape tab, select Arrange and choose Selection Pane .

If you want to customize your table, click Table of Contents and Custom Table of Contents. Look through the options and decide what you want to do. For example, you can show more levels. Then, click Options and change how you want to map the styles to each table of contents level. You can also modify the table to work for print or the Web, or both.

Add a bar chart to a presentation in PowerPoint. Use a bar chart to illustrate comparisons over a period of time. When you need a bar chart in a presentation, use PowerPoint to create it, if the data is relatively simple and won’t need frequent updates (otherwise, see Copy an Excel chart below in this summary). Here’s how:

Note: An axis label is different from an axis title, which you can add to describe what's shown on the axis.Axis titles aren't automatically shown in a chart. To learn how to add them, see Add or remove titles in a chart.Also, horizontal axis labels (in the chart above, Qtr 1, Qtr 2, Qtr 3, and Qtr 4) are different from the legend labels below them (East Asia Sales 2009 and East Asia Sales 2010).

Use PowerPoint with your keyboard and a screen reader to make your presentation engaging by adding pictures, tables, or graphics to your slide shows. We have tested it with Narrator, JAWS, and NVDA, but it might work with other screen readers as long as they follow common accessibility standards and techniques.

Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Insert Shapes group, click Edit Text.. If you do not see the Drawing Tools or Format tabs, make sure that you selected a shape.. To change multiple shapes, press and hold Shift while you click the shapes that you want to change. For more information about selecting shapes, see Select a shape or other object.

If the data doesn’t change, or the changes matter little to you, take a screenshot of the chart in Excel and insert it as a picture on your slide.Here’s how to do that: In Excel for the web or Excel desktop, press Print Screen, and save it as a picture using a picture editor application, such as Paint for Windows or iPhoto for Mac.