How to embed interactive visualizations in PowerPoint
Datawrapper offers an extensive add-in for PowerPoint that lets you add, create, and edit static Datawrapper visualizations – right within PowerPoint. You can learn more about it here.
That said, some presentations are simply better with interactive visualizations – to zoom into maps, or to see tooltips when hovering over data points. To embed interactive Datawrapper visualizations, you can use our additional Datawrapper Visualization add-in. This article explains how to use it.
👉 We recommend to use the “Datawrapper” PowerPoint add-in that embeds static visualization for most cases. As opposed to embedding interactive visualizations, static visualizations will load instantly when presenting, and will work even when you’re offline or when sharing your PowerPoint file. You can find more advantages of embedding static visualizations here.
How to use the add-in “Interactive Visualizations with Datawrapper”
- To download it, go to the app in the Microsoft App store and click on Get it now. You can also open PowerPoint, go to the Home tab, click on Add-Ins, search for the app "Interactive Visualizations with Datawrapper", then Add it.
- To embed a new interactive visualization on a slide, go to the Home tab in PowerPoint, then click on Add-Ins, and select the add-in Interactive Visualizations with Datawrapper.
- You’ll be prompted on your slide to enter a Datawrapper sharing URL (e.g. datawrapper.de/_/FdWeD or only anID (
FdWeD). If you entered a valid URL or ID, you’ll see a preview of your visualization. Click on Add:
And that's it! In edit and presenter mode, your visualization will now be interactive. Try to hover over it to see tooltips, zoom in maps, or sort and search in tables.
How to change, update, and remove visualizations
Here are some further tricks to work with this add-in:
- To resize the visualization, drag one of the handles of the embeds.
- To change the visualization URL, hover over the chart and click on the little pen icon in the upper left.
- To update the visualization – e.g. when you republish a visualization and want the changes to show up on your slides as well –, right-click on it and select Reload.
- To remove the visualizaton, simply select it and hit “delete”/backspace on your keyboard.
How to use this add-in with the Datawrapper add-in
The Datawrapper add-in and this Datawrapper visualization add-in work independent from each other. However, we recommend to use them together. If you do, interactive visualizations will be visible in your overview of charts and labeled with a small “Interactive” badge:
You can also click on Edit yourvisualization to go directly to the edit process of your embedded visualizations. Make sure to publish your visualization to see the changes in your PowerPoint presntation.