[ProHack] Hiding a (Horizontal, or any) Chart, While Keeping the Percentage Visible

Have you ever wanted to hide the chart, but leave the percentage visible, so that you can still evaluate the results of your poll instantly?

Perhaps you didn't like the way the text may blend into the horizontal bars, but you didn't want to mess with changing their the colors.

Maybe you don't like the other types of charts and must use the horizontal one because you want to fit other objects on the same slide.

We get it.

Since there's no way to detach the percentage from the color bars, as they are one and the same Excel chart object, we'll let you in on a hack that ARS pros use every day.

See attached presentation for your testing pleasure.

Follow these steps:

- Insert a question slide with horizontal chart

- Insert a rectangular object of the same color as the background (TIP: make the object wide and tall enough to cover all eventual/possible lengths of the bars)

- Position it over the chart, but under the text (this is achieved by "layering" of elements via right-click on the rectangle --> hover over Send to Back --> click on Send Backward)

TIP: to "arrange" the objects in layers, you can also use the Home tab on the PowerPoint Ribbon and find the Arrange button that lets you do the same thing - Send Backward

Feel free to let us know if this was helpful.