Though Microsoft PowerPoint offers an assortment of charts as well as graphs that you can always add to your presentations, these charts always appear as static images on your slides. You can however add interactivity and movement by using PowerPoint built-in animation tools.
As an instance if you have added a chart to one of your slides,the chart may be made to appear fade or wipe by the application of Custom Animation. More details about the animations in PowerPoint is explained under. In PowerPoint you can always go for some basic animations to be instilled in your charts but the workflow here may not appear to be as easy as expected.
You may then seek an alternate charting tool that may be bore perspicacious and may aid in fabrication of impressive charts eating into less amount of time your search well ends at oomfo.
It is a free plug-in that enables you create animated charts inside your copy of Microsoft PowerPoint. It is Adobe Flash based.It supports all the recent versions of Microsoft Office including Office 2010.
The wizard used is simple and is as follows :
1. Choose a chart type.
2. Type the data into the wizard (or you can copy-paste cells from Excel).
Thus your chart stands inserted in your current PowerPoint slide as a Flash (SWF) object.You have the option of resizing it as well as placing it anywhere in your slide just like a regular image based chart.
The video above is a sample PowerPoint video created using oomfo.
The animation on the chart plays instantly as and when the slide appears on the screen, you may also use your mouse pointer to highlight the various data points, something which is not that easy to accomplish in standard PowerPoint.
