Inserting Tables and Charts

The following group of buttons allow you to insert Microsoft

2. When you click on the "Word table" button a small box appears. Holding the mouse button depressed, drag your cursor to correspond to the number of columns or rows required for the table, then release the mouse button. A table will appear with the selected number of cells. Start typing in the table. When you are done, click in the "close" box at the top left hand corner of the screen, and the table will appear on the PowerPoint® slide.

3. When you click on the "Excel worksheet" button the same small box appears (as in 2. above). Again holding the mouse button depressed, drag your cursor to correspond to the number of columns or rows required for the table, then release the mouse button. A worksheet will appear with the selected dimensions. Start typing in the worksheet. When you are done, click in the "close" box at the top left hand corner of the screen, and the table will appear on the PowerPoint® slide.

4. When you click on the chart button the following screen appears.

5. From this screen you are able to input data and convert the data to different kinds of vertical and horizontal bar, pie, and line graphs. When you click on the "File" menu and then on "Quit & Return to....," or press zQ, only the graph will appear on the PowerPoint® slide.

6. The last button in this group is the "clipart" button. When you click on this button, follow the same procedure as in the page entitled Inserting clipart.