Removing - Chart junk - From presentations

I have an example a pretty common presentation slide that is trying to display data if I select that notice I have some features that come across the top a ribbon now the problem with this particular data is a lot of chart junk in there notice its using three-dimensional effects its got various labels and and the graph lines running across the graph what this does is essentially it dilutes the value the data that's been presented their and is is skewing what the viewer can actually understand from that data so I am going to show you some pretty simple techniques to to clean this up a bit the first thing is we actually need to change the type of presentation thats being used here so here in this in that chart types I'm going to go here to column and this is a column type but what I'm going to do is just go over and remove the three-dimensional affects notice now that I have just the data within those bars the next thing I want to do is is remove the grid lines or least a few of them so I'm going to go here to the grid line option the horizontal and now I'm just going to display the major grid lines so that's quite a bit better there now at this data table I'm actually duplicating the data that is there so I'm actually going to remove that data table so now I have the the actual bars that are representing the data I still have these numbers within their which actually I think we're gonna go ahead and clean up to so if I go no data labels on that by going under to the data labels area notice that I've cleaned that up as well so here I've gone from a very visually dense and confusing graphic to something that shows as much more easier to look at and show trends and really cleaned up the the appeal in usability of that that data visualization with just a few clicks