It's easy to insert a chart in your presentation - just click on Insert, Chart, and replace the basic information with your own - even if the information is in another language such as Hebrew. You can then delete the extraneous information. This way you don't have to go through a lot of unnecessary programming of the material.

Try to construct your chart so that the automatic legend can be deleted. You will want to have only a minimum amount of information on the screen - and you want them to remember the information on the chart, not the legend.

Keep the number of items on your chart to a minimum. Four is fine; six is a maximum.

The parts of a chart can fly into place in a certain animated sequence. Fill in the parts of the chart in the same sequence as they are to fly in. This makes them far more noticeable and memorable. PowerPoint remembers the sequence that parts are typed in. You can set up these features in the custom animation for that particular slide and then you can speak about each part individually. As a result, in many cases you will use your laser pen less and you can indicate these different items very briefly. Just refer to the items as they drop in to place.

Each part on the bar chart has to go in with a separate click. However, don't use the mouse - you'll probably fumble it. Use the space bar on the keyboard to have the individual slices or bars of the chart arrive in the sequence that you determine.

The bars and the slices are set up by PowerPoint in a certain color pattern that may not necessarily match the desired feeling or effect.

Do you want to have red rage, or do you want green or blue calming effects? If so, double click on the chart, right click on the section to be changed, and modify the color that represents what you want to indicate. Women have a better feeling for this aspect than men, so let women to design this part of the chart.

In general, that chart should take up nearly all of the screen, with little or no text. The chart itself should be the memorable part of your presentation. Even your logo which is on many screens should be tested. Look at the screen with the logo and without the logo. In some cases the logo takes away some attention from the chart, so it should be removed from this screen. Consider the long-term effect on the audience more than the color combinations.