PowerPoint slide layout

[m_m]

Is it possible to design my own layout? How do I modify the slide layout so that one slide contains a title, 2 charts and 1 text box? Thanks a lot.

[GadgetGeek]

start with a blank slide and insert charts as needed. Resize each one to fit as necessary. The insert menu is your friend. Title is really just a text box. Can also start wtih a slide that has just the title bar already on it and work from that.
Good luck.

[m_m]

Originally Posted by GadgetGeek

start with a blank slide and insert charts as needed. Resize each one to fit as necessary. The insert menu is your friend. Title is really just a text box. Can also start wtih a slide that has just the title bar already on it and work from that.
Good luck.

Thanks, I know I can insert as many charts as I like, then resize them to fit. However, I was wondering if I can create something like a standard layout, because I need to do it multiple times, but I don't know if PowerPoint allows me to do that?

[GadgetGeek]

Ah, misunderstood the request. Google: powerpoint custom autolayout for some quick hits.
Another thought is get a single slide set up the way you like it, save it and then in a new presentation, insert slide from file for as many as you need. Not quite as quick as an autolayout, but useable. Or duplicate slide might work as well.
Maybe I'll get a chance to mess with this over the weekend.

[Pseudolus]

Can you just set it up once, and then copy that slide as many times as you need?

(I forget if there's a "copy slide" command - I don't have PPnt here at home.)

[m_m]

Can I copy a chart from Excel and paste it in PowerPoint? The chart didn't turn out right when I tried to do so.

Also, when I did "Insert" "Chart", it didn't ask me which chart I want to insert but automatically gave me a chart from nowhere?

Btw, it has a "Duplicate Slide" option.

Thanks for the help

[suspended4th]

Originally Posted by m_m

Can I copy a chart from Excel and paste it in PowerPoint? The chart didn't turn out right when I tried to do so.

Also, when I did "Insert" "Chart", it didn't ask me which chart I want to insert but automatically gave me a chart from nowhere?

Btw, it has a "Duplicate Slide" option.

Thanks for the help

I'm not sure if you can import an Excel chart as anything except an image object.

The Powerpoint-created charts let you build an actual chart object from a temporary spreadsheet. I'm not sure if you can link an Excel spreadsheet and chart to a PPT slide, but you can always copy/paste the final numbers into this temporary spreadsheet and make the chart that way.

Hope this helps.

[GadgetGeek]

you really want to build your charts in powerpoint. You can paste the image from excel, but I don't think you want to do that.
You populate the data grid in the powerpoint chart (starts with some default data...just overwrite it) and then get your chart set up the way you want it. If both charts on the same slide are similar, then copy the chart object and past it so that you have two on the same slide, then modify the second one to do its job.
Then use the duplicate slide option.
If this is somethng you will have to do on a recurring basis, it can be automated with macros (there is an article on the SOA computer science section website that discusses automating powerpoint slide generation).

[m_m]

Thanks guys, I will give it a try on Monday.

[m_m]

There is a "click to add notes" section at the bottom of the slide, however when I tried printing the slide the notes that I put down won't show up, is there a way to print the slide + notes?

Thanks