-: Graphically speaking,
the bar chart is one of my favorite charts,
especially if you have plenty of data points,
and you wanna put them horizontal,
so we can read everything.
For example, if you compare different laptops
and their performance,
this looks very well on a bar chart.
Here, I have a lot of data.
We have different types of oil,
and how much area is needed
to, like, produce one ton of this oil.
Not all data is accurate here, but this is just an example.
I'll take all the data points.
I'll go to slide number 3,
and at first, it says "Insert a Column Chart."
Let's do it like that.
I'll insert a column chart,
a normal column chart,
put in the data.
Let me enlarge this.
I'll put in the data.
I'll of course reduce the number of categories here,
and look what happens.
This also looks okay,
but I wanted to show you,
one, a feature in PowerPoint,
and two, how much better a bar chart would look here,
because we barely can read everything,
especially because there are so many of those names here.
If you right-click, Change Chart Type,
change it from Column to Bar,
you can do that, again, at a given point.
You can press OK,
and you can see how much better this chart already looks.
Okay, Control + B.
Next, what do we have?
Right-click on the y-axis,
this, on the left side,
and set "Categories in reverse order."
Yes, we've already been talking about that,
but very often you wanna go high to low.
Everything about sorting,
it's very convenient that in PowerPoint,
if you go to Format Axis,
you can select "Categories in reverse order."
We are in luck here,
because the categories have been already sorted,
I've already sorted them high to low,
but if not, we would need to go for a second into Excel.
Okay, this looks beautiful.
Add data labels,
and recolor Almond oil to make it prominent.
I love doing this.
We wanna highlight Almond oil.
Either we double-click to select it,
we go to Chart Design or Format,
and give it a different fill.
But you can see the color is barely visible.
What I often do,
I give a very light color to everything,
Shape Fill, for example a gray.
A gray, like, it's the perfect color
to showcase something less relevant.
And once I have gray,
I select the data I wanna highlight,
and I highlight it
with the color that I'm using in the presentation.
In our presentation, we are using blue,
so I'll give it this deep blue,
and I'll also insert data labels.
Deselect it,
click once again on the entire series,
plus sign, add Data Labels.
Beautiful. We see all the labels.
It looks really good.
I think, since we already have the labels,
why don't we just delete this upper axis?
And also, please delete the legend.
We absolutely do not need a legend.
This is what we came up with.
It looks absolutely gorgeous.
And this is how you can utilize the bar chart.
I would like you to go into PowerPoint,
and make the same changes into this chart.
Play a bit around
with the data that we have here,
and you surely will learn a lot about PowerPoint
and about using this type of chart.