Learn how to apply a pre-defined Chart Style to your charts in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2007 for Windows
Long time PowerPoint users will remember the difficulties of charting -- it was so painful, time-consuming, and repetitive a task changing the fills of all the series one after the other -- and if your presentation had more than one chart slide, then you also had to ensure that all charts looked the same.
PowerPoint 2007 makes this sort of repetitive formatting easy and consistent with the Chart Styles option -- these are pre-defined styles that contain combinations of formatting elements such as fills, outlines, and effects. PowerPoint provides various styles to choose from -- and all these styles are based on Office Themes.
To apply a Chart Style, you first need to have a chart in your presentation. Learn how to insert a chart in PowerPoint 2007, and then follow these steps to apply a chart styles in PowerPoint 2007 (or even PowerPoint 2010):
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