How do I create error bars in a PowerPoint chart?
You don´t. Create your chart with error bars in Excel and then import it into PowerPoint (to add error bars to an Excel chart, right click on the data series, go to Format data series, and enter in the error bar data). To import a chart into PowerPoint from Excel, select it in Excel with one mouse click, go to Edit, Copy. Switch to your PowerPoint file and go to Edit, Paste. • The text inside of my text boxes didn’t print out on my poster. How can I fix that? Right click on your text box, go to Document object, Convert, and select Microsoft Word Picture. Do this to each of your text boxes that did not print. Note that to avoid these kinds of printing problems, we recommend that you create your poster file in PowerPoint, then create a PDF file from that PowerPoint file, and then print your PDF file to the poster printer. Instructions on how to create a PDF file from your PowerPoint file are available online (Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro is installed on the computer by the poster printer and all
