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dy/dan » Blog Archive » Your Annual Report: Final Entries — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:54:09 +0000

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By: JackieB

JackieB — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:34:15 +0000

Todd- Sorry to be so late in commenting (finals and all), I too like your pie chart. Thanks for the explanation as to how you created it. I also like the background images in each slide. They aren’t distracting, yet they add to the story being told in each slide. Nice work!

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:40:16 +0000

Wow. Thank you. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that my pie chart works. That was a last-minute addition and I was incredibly happy just to figure out a way to get it looking like a pie chart. I had no idea how to do it since the examples I found online weren’t good for what I wanted to do. That and the lack of any “Pie Chart” tool in Photoshop made it tough.

Excel (isn’t that actually what you’re using inside of PP, an Excel worksheet inserted into the slide?) is quick and easy, though. Sometimes, you just need a chart to show 3rd period how much better they rocked that last quiz than the other classes. Do that in Excel. But I’m now thinking that PowerPoint is a slide show tool, not an image creation tool.

By: A. Mercer

A. Mercer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:44:59 +0000

Excellent design and execution. After looking through many of the entries, I’ve come to the conclusion that PP should not be used for graphs, and that you’re better off doing it by hand like you did on the pie chart.

By: sam shah

sam shah — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:14:17 +0000

Todd,

I concur with Iain; the staggered pie chart is STUNNING.

Sam Shah