Ranjani R

An avatar image acts as a visual representation of a specific user on online services, including blog comments, chat rooms, forums, online games and some social networking sites. Your avatar image might be an actual photo of yourself or a cartoon, logo or other graphic. Because an avatar image is just like any other image file, you can add your…[Read more]

PowerPoint Charts
Use a chart when you want your audience to easily understand a large quantity of data and the relationships between parts of the data. A chart is often much better at presenting information visually than hard-to-read numbers in a table.

Chart Types
Insert Charts
Column Column charts are used to compare different values…[Read more]

To change the chart style:
Select the Chart Tools Design tab.
The Chart Styles group
Click the More drop-down arrow in the Chart Styles group to see all of the available styles.
Select the desired style.
Selecting a new chart style
The chart will update to reflect the new style.
The modified chart
Challenge!
Open an existing PowerPoint…[Read more]

To change the chart layout:
Select the Chart Tools Design tab.
Click the More drop-down arrow in the Chart Layouts group to see all of the available layouts.
The More Layouts drop-down arrow
Select the desired layout.
More chart layout choices
The chart will update to reflect the new layout.
The modified chart
Some layouts include things like…[Read more]

To switch row and column data:
Sometimes when you create a chart, the data may not be grouped the way you want it to. In the clustered column chart below on the left, the Book Genre Sales statistics are grouped by genre, with a column for each year. However, you could also switch the row and column data so the chart will group the statistics by…[Read more]

Modifying charts with chart tools
There are many ways to customize and organize your charts. For example, PowerPoint allows you to change the chart type, rearrange a chart’s data, and even change the layout and style.

Once you insert a chart, a set of chart tools will appear on the Ribbon. These are only visible when the chart is selected. You…[Read more]

Importing a chart from Excel
If you have already created a chart in Excel, you can import and link it to your PowerPoint presentation. When you insert an Excel chart in PowerPoint, any updates you make to the original Excel chart will automatically update in your PowerPoint presentation, as long as the files remain in the same location. This can…[Read more]

To enter chart data:
The data that appears in the Excel spreadsheet is placeholder source data that you will replace with your own information. The Excel source data is used to create the PowerPoint chart.

The placeholder source data and the corresponding chart
Enter your data into the Excel spreadsheet. If you are not sure how to enter data into…[Read more]

Inserting charts
PowerPoint uses an Excel worksheet as a placeholder for entering chart data. Therefore, when you insert or edit a chart in PowerPoint, an Excel window will automatically open. The process is user-friendly, but if you are totally unfamiliar with Excel, you might want to review our Cell Basics lesson from our Excel 2010…[Read more]

Introduction

A chart is a tool you can use to communicate your data graphically. Displaying charts in PowerPoint allows your audience to see the meaning behind the numbers, and it makes showing comparisons and trends much easier. In this lesson, you will learn how to insert charts and modify them so they communicate information…[Read more]

Adding Images from a File
You can add your own images that you have saved or have access to. To add images from
a file follow these steps:
1. In slide view go to Insert on the menu bar and then Picture and click on From
File.
2. Choose the picture that you have saved.
3. Click on Insert.
4. You can then resize your image if you need to and…[Read more]

Inserting Clip Art
You can use Clip Art to add pictures to your document and make it more dynamic,
colorful, and creative. You can obtain Clip Art from the Microsoft Clip Organizer.
Inserting Clip Art: Search Option
1. From the Insert menu, select Picture » Clip Art…
The Clip Art task pane appears.
2. In the Search for text box, type…[Read more]

Slide Views
You probably noticed, as soon as you saw the PowerPoint view screen, the area running
down the left side of the screen, contained “little” views of your slides as you were
creating them. This first “default view that you see is called Normal View.
In the lower left corner of the screen you will see some “buttons” that look like…[Read more]

PowerPoint Basics
Basic PowerPoint Tasks
PowerPoint is a powerful and versatile program for creating presentations. Many familiar
concepts from other Office programs will carry over to PowerPoint. This document will
show you how to complete some of the basic tasks involved in creating presentations.
• Opening PowerPoint
• Starting a New Pre…[Read more]

A goto statement provides an unconditional jump from the goto to a labeled statement in the same function.

NOTE − Use of goto statement is highly discouraged because it makes difficult to trace the control flow of a program, making the program hard to understand and hard to modify. Any program that uses a goto can be rewritten so that it d…[Read more]

A switch statement allows a variable to be tested for equality against a list of values. Each value is called a case, and the variable being switched on is checked for each case.

Syntax
The syntax for a switch statement in C++ is as follows −

switch(expression) {
case constant-expression :
statement(s);
break; //optional
c…[Read more]

The break statement has the following two usages in C++ −

When the break statement is encountered inside a loop, the loop is immediately terminated and program control resumes at the next statement following the loop.

It can be used to terminate a case in the switch statement (covered in the next chapter).

If you are using nested loops (i.e., o…[Read more]

An if-else statement controls conditional branching. Statements in the if-branch are executed only if the condition evaluates to a non-zero value (or true). If the value of condition is nonzero, the following statement gets executed, and the statement following the optional else gets skipped. Otherwise, the following statement gets skipped, and if…[Read more]

Type Conversion in C++
A type cast is basically a conversion from one type to another. There are two types of type conversion:

Implicit Type Conversion Also known as ‘automatic type conversion’.
Done by the compiler on its own, without any external trigger from the user.
Generally takes place when in an expression more than one data type is pre…[Read more]

C++ Data Types
All variables use data type during declaration to restrict the type of data to be stored. Therefore, we can say that data types are used to tell the variables the type of data they can store. Whenever a variable is defined in C++, the compiler allocates some memory for that variable based on the data type with which it is declared.…[Read more]