Feature

    PowerPoint Charts

    Create waterfall, Mekko, butterfly and scatter charts in PowerPoint - plus CAGR arrows and axis breaks - on native charts anyone can still edit.

    The chart picker, opening at your mouse pointer

    Key Benefits

    Waterfall, Mekko, butterfly, pie, doughnut, scatter and bubble charts
    CAGR, growth and difference arrows that stay anchored to their bars
    Axis breaks that keep outliers and small values readable together
    Your charts stay native PowerPoint - colleagues without presentaid can still edit them
    Company chart design applied automatically to every new chart
    Link a chart to an Excel file and refresh it when you decide

    Waterfall, Mekko and Butterfly Charts in PowerPoint

    Waterfalls, Mekkos and butterfly charts do not exist in PowerPoint. Today they get assembled from stacked bars and invisible spacers - and fall apart the moment a number changes. presentaid builds them properly: pick the chart type, enter your values, and the construction maintains itself. Layouts, connectors and labels update automatically whenever your data changes.

    A waterfall and the data sheet behind it

    CAGR, Growth and Difference Arrows That Survive a Data Update

    A CAGR arrow, a growth arrow, a difference arrow or a value line is what turns a chart into an argument. presentaid anchors each one to the bars it describes, not to a position on the slide. Change the numbers and the arrow moves with them, recalculates its label, and stays correct. The plot area even shrinks by itself so an arrow above the tallest column never overlaps the data.

    Growth arrow with its settings panel

    Axis Breaks, Data Labels and Chart Formatting in One Toolbar

    Select a chart and a small bar appears above it: edit the data, add annotations, switch the chart type, and open Chart Properties - font size, bar width, legend, data labels, axis scale and number format, all in one panel instead of five PowerPoint dialogs. Labels drawn on a bar pick black or white automatically, so a value never disappears into a dark column or a pale one.

    The chart action bar

    Your Chart Design, Applied for You

    The Chart Style Configurator defines how every new chart should look - title, axes, legend, typeface, gridlines and an ordered colour palette. Publish it company-wide and nobody has to re-apply the house look by hand. Each setting is opt-in: what you do not tick stays exactly as your template left it. Add a series later and it is coloured from the palette automatically, without touching the ones already on the slide.

    Chart Style Configurator

    Linked to Excel, Refreshed on Your Terms

    Point a chart at a range in an Excel workbook and presentaid writes those values into the chart's own data sheet. The deck stays self-contained - send it to someone without the workbook and the chart still shows its last refreshed data. presentaid never refreshes behind your back: when the source file changes, an amber alert appears on the action bar and you decide whether to pull the new numbers in.

    Linking a chart to an Excel file

    Frequently Asked Questions

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