You can change the default color of chart, graph, treemap, etc. in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the helpof these simple steps.

You can manually create a custom Gantt chart from scratch using the native Chart menu of PowerPoint. In its Chart menu, you can find several types of standard charts including line, bar, area, pie ...

Click "Close," and you see your color selection reflected in that portion of the pie chart. To change the color of another section of the pie chart, click on that section and repeat the process.

Removing data from a chart in PowerPoint 2010 is similar to creating one. You choose to edit the chart and the familiar Microsoft Excel window pops up, enabling you to remove columns, rows and cells.

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it.