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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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You have a couple of different options.
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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.
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Click from sheets.
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A new window opens with all of your spreadsheets.
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Choose the one that has the chart you want, then click select in the next window.
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Select the chart that you want to import, then make sure that link to spreadsheet is checked.
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This is important.
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If you uncheck this option, you won't be ableto edit your chart after you import it.
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When you're ready, click import.
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The chart is added to your slide.
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If you want, you can resize it by clicking and dragging the sizing handles.
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Use one of the handles in the corner to prevent the chart from stretching out of proportion.
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You can also click and drag the chart to reposition it.
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In order to edit the chart, you have toe open it in Google sheets.
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Click the drop down in the top right corner and choose open source.
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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.
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In the pain that opens, you can control virtually every aspect of the charts appearance.
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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.
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They're the title is gone.
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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.
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In this example, the number 250 was a typo.
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It was supposed to say 25 so I'll change it and the chart will update.
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Okay, let's go back to the tab.
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With our Google Slides presentation, there should now be an update button in the top right corner of the chart.
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If the update button isn't there, try refreshing the Web page that should solve the problem.
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Toe Update your chart.
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Simply click update The changes that you made in Google sheets are now reflected in your presentation.
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That's how you import a chart that was previously created using Google sheets.
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But what if you need to create a chart from scratch?
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If that's the case, go to insert chart and then choose the style that you want.
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A chart will be inserted with default styling and sample data.
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Once again, you can Onley edit the chart from within Google Sheets, so click the drop down and choose open source.
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The Google sheet that opens was automatically created when you inserted the chart.
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From here, you can edit the data and charts styling.
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Justus, you would any other chart in Google sheets?
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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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