![]() ![]() But it’s great if your slide has a blank background, or your bar is a single block colour.Ī slightly more complex – but more effective – method to make your PowerPoint bar chart grow or shrink is to replace your existing bar with a completely new one. If (for whatever reason) you can’t format your shape to perfectly match – for example, if you have a picture on your slide background – this method won’t work for you. You need to match your box to the background or the existing bar. To make the bar grow, you create a rectangle the same colour as your existing bar, and animate it in to extend your bar’s height. To make a bar shrink, you create a rectangle the same colour as your slide background, and animate it in over the top portion of your slide. The first technique is a quick workaround using additional Autoshape boxes. Hopefully one of them will work for your slide – and might just be the missing trick you’ve been searching for.Įach of the following methods has been designed to work with a chart that you’ve created yourself using Autoshapes – boxes, lines and arrows – I’ll cover animations in PowerPoint charts proper in a later blog post. ![]() There are a few ways around it, but each of them has strengths and weaknesses. Surprisingly enough, it’s not that easy to get a bar chart to grow or shrink in PowerPoint.
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