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  • 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 ableto 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 toe 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 pain that opens, you can control virtually every aspect of the charts 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.

  • They're 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.

  • Okay, 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.

  • Toe 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 Onley 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 charts styling.

  • Justus, 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 G C F.

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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.

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