-: I want to be fair to everyone,
even to people who never open PowerPoint
and never work with charts.
This is the time to learn
and I want to challenge you right now.
If you know a lot about charts, that's great.
If not, then I'll try to show you everything
with simple steps, but they will be challenging
to force your brain to think really hard.
I want you to open the practice file on the Chart Basics.
I'll always display a Ready chart,
this is what you want to achieve, and a Practice chart.
This is where you want to work and practice your skills.
I'll try to write down tasks so you don't get lost.
Chart Basics.
Our task number zero is two times to select something.
If you select a chart in PowerPoint, you click on it.
You have selected the entire series here,
here, here, and here.
But if you click once again
you can select an individual item within a series.
This also works for data labels and for legends.
If you have a legend, I am selecting a legend
but if I click again,
I can select an individual item within the legend.
If you wanna add and remove certain items from a chart
either hit this plus sign
or go to Chart Design, Add Chart Element,
and you can add and remove certain elements here.
I strongly recommend that if you never work with charts
that you open this chart element and you try to add titles
the data labels, to see what they actually are.
Okay, we've performed task number one or actually zero.
Let's go to task number one, something very important.
Change x axis values to display every 20%.
I will select the x axis on the bottom.
You can see it displays every 10%.
I can right click on it.
Go to Format Axis and specific options to this axis appear.
Not only filling options like you may know
within PowerPoint, but also those specific options
for the selected chart item.
Here on the unit, I wanna change the major from 0.1 to 0.2.
I press Enter, and you can see it displays now every 20%.
This is something that really cleans this chart up.
Remember the drawback here is that the
vertical grid lines also disappeared
because they are connected to the actual axis.
Okay, we have performed tasks number one and zero.
Now we'll go to give the x axis a line fill.
Select the x axis again.
Now, instead of the Specific Options,
go to the Filling Options.
Under the Filling Options, I want to open Line
and I'll increase the width to maybe two points.
It's a bit much, but I wanna clearly display this line.
I can change the color to blue
and I can go back to the Specific Options
because I also like to have tick marks.
You can open Tick Marks, Major Type, Inside or Outside.
I like outside because they are facing down
straight on the number,
and this is how we formatted interestingly, the x axis.
I would like us to create the rest of the tasks
in the next lecture so you don't get overwhelmed.
Try to open this file.
Try to perform at least the first few tasks
and we will see each other in the next lecture
when we finalize this practice file.