{"id":44356,"date":"2013-06-24T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=44356"},"modified":"2013-06-24T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:39:12","slug":"animating-a-powerpoint-table-or-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/animating-a-powerpoint-table-or-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Animating a PowerPoint Table or Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Ellen Finkelstein<\/p>\n<h3>Animating a PowerPoint Table or Chart<\/h3>\n<p><em>Animate a table or chart in PowerPoint 2007 &#038; later<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may want to animate individual elements of a table such as rows, columns, or cells. PowerPoint lets you animate the entire table, but not its elements. Likewise, you may want to animated individual portions of a chart.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Charts have their own animation settings, which may work fine for you. If they do, you don\u2019t need to use one of the methods below. Select the chart and add an animation, such as Appear. In the Custom Animation task pane\/Animation pane, click the animation\u2019s down arrow and choose Effect Options. On the Chart Animation tab, choose one of the options from the Group Chart drop-down list.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on ungrouping a table in 2003 and the chart animation settings, see my tip Animate a chart or table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenfinkelstein.com\/pptblog\/animate-a-table-or-chart-in-2007-2010-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here, I offer two methods of animating a table in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with the permission of PowerPoint Tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pptcharts150.jpg\" alt=\"pptcharts150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Learn how to automate a table or chart in Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powerpoint-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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