Oomfo

Not only do presentation provide you with an engaging environment for sharing information with others, but at times, they can also help the speakers ease potential anxiety, as the audience is more likely to focus on the slides and not on them.

Oomfo is a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to create charts and graphs for the data you want to present from Excel spreadsheets in an interactive and engaging way.

First off, you should know that you need to have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer, as after all this is an add-in. The utility integrates seamlessly into the host's toolbar and you can access it from the Insert tab.

The highlight of the tool stems from the fact that it allows you to design any type of chart required by your project, including stacked, scroll, multi-series, combination and 3D columns graphs, just to name a few of the categories available. You can create a new chart by following a few simple steps that entail selecting the graph type, source data, titles, number format and customizing it to make it more appealing.

The customization toolset is the area where the add-in really shines, especially as you can easily integrate animated objects and effects that are very likely to direct the viewers' attention exactly where you want. You will be glad to hear that you only need to configure a single animation sequence and then save it so that you can apply it to as many chart elements as required.

On the other hand, you should bear in mind that if you want to preserve the animations included in your slides, you should convert the presentation to SWF. On a side note, you can convert conventional presentations to BMP only. It would have been nice if the app provided more options, such as PDF, for instance, so that you can be sure the settings are preserved.

If you need to present a large amount of data to a not-so-patient audience and would like to make sure the information and conclusions are easily understood, then perhaps Oomfo can help you design the charts you require for this purpose.