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1.

Request a Chart

You can insert a chart in any slide. If the slide contains a chart placeholder (a small icon of a chart), double-click the placeholder to add the chart. If the slide doesn't contain a placeholder, choose

Chart from the

Insert menu. Impress places a sample chart directly in the center of your slide and closes the

Slide and

Task panes (if they are open) to give you more room to work with the chart. You now must position the chart where you want it and change the data values used in the chart to match the data you want to portray in the presentation. In addition, you can change the chart type as well as all its labels.

68 Add a Chart to a Spreadsheet describes each chart type and the best use for each one.

4.

Modify the Data in Spreadsheet Form

When you select

Chart Data from the right-click menu, a small spreadsheet appears in the center of your slide. This is a Calc-like spreadsheet add-in program. Although all of Calc's features aren't represented in Impress's spreadsheet, you can easily enter the data needed to create your chart in the rows and columns there.

Replace the sample row and column labels with your own data's label information. Replace the data inside the spreadsheet's body with your own data. You can add or delete rows or columns, simply by selecting a row or column that precedes the one you want to add or by selecting a row or column to delete. You may sort by rows or columns, as you might do if you wanted data to appear alphabetically in the chart.OLE object . You must tell Impress that you want to edit that object when you want to make additional changes, such as changing the title or legend rather than simply moving or resizing it.