My boss and I were looking over some graphs for use in an upcoming video production.

The graphs that the project supplied us were in one word, awful.

I suggested that we use Excel for the charts and she said that she didn't think Excel was a good choice for graphics - I took this as a challenge.

I had been building graphs for another project for Jenny's sister and I adapted it for this project.

The first file attached is the word document - the first graph was the experiment.

As you can see, it is the standard, blocky Word graph.

I put the data in an Excel spreadsheet, made a graph, customized the backgrounds - I used a background file I found on PBS (public domain) and changed the hues to all sorts of colors.

After a little experimenting, I got the results found in the second file attached.

It's fully customizable, and the data is fully editable.

What I would like to do is create an animation in Captivate with this file, highlighting the blocks in yellow when the speaker talks about the statistic.

Now the only trick is getting my boss to buy in.