How To Create A Harvey Ball In Powerpoint

PowerPoint Tutorial #12- How to Design Harvey Balls in Just a Minute!

Your presentation is just after two days and you are all messed up! Have to talk specifically about the qualitative information and yet you don't know how to go about it. Fret not. We are here to give you a solution to your problem.

It is always an easy job to explain any kind of quantitative information. You can talk about numbers, sales, figures in an effortless manner. It becomes troublesome when it comes to explain things like quality, safety or taste. Since most of us are not aware what PowerPoint template should we use to describe these, we often end up writing our information on a white plain slide. To sum up, describing any kind of qualitative information is not everybody's cup of tea.

Hence, the solution to this problem is Harvey Balls. Harvey Balls are used for visual communication of qualitative information. They are frequently used in comparison tables. Harvey Balls are a great means to show the visual status update across a list of items. Therefore, add Harvey Balls in your presentation, explain each and every point with a great visual and leave your audience amazed.

Harvey Balls Diagrams

harvey balls

What You'll Learn to Create in this Tutorial:

Harvey ball diagram for qualitative analysis

It can be used for any presentation where you are showing comparison and qualitative information. Here's an example of how 4 most popular smartphones fare against each other on the usability factor:

Smartphone comparison with harvey balls

Look at the above diagram. Visual describes everything. Presenter does not have to put efforts to explain each and everything to the audience. So sit back, relax and pay attention to the steps of creating Harvey Balls diagram for your presentation.

Steps to create Harvey Ball Diagram:

1. Insert an Oval Shape from the shapes menu. Insert> Shapes> Basic Shapes> Oval Shape. Press Ctrl + Shift to draw a symmetrical circle.

Insert an oval shape

2. Duplicate the original Oval shape by pressing Control C and Control V.

Copy paste the oval shape

3. Select the duplicated oval shape. Go to the Format tab> Edit Shapes> Change Shape> Pie chart. Place the pie chart over the duplicated one.

Place pie chart over the duplicated oval shape

4. Select the original oval shape. Right click the image. Fill> No Fill.

Remove the fill color of the original shape

The Harvey Ball is ready:

Harvey ball

5. Move the yellow handles to get different shapes of Harvey Balls. See the below image to get a clearer picture of what you have to do.

Move the yellow handles to get different shapes

6. Add the colors of your choice in the diagram. Right click the image> Fill> Choose Color.

Change the colors

Here is the customized Harvey Ball which took just a minute to create.

Simple harvey ball

No more worries now. Create your own customized Harvey Ball design in just 5 minutes and don't leave any chance to impress your audience. In case, you don't have much time to create the PowerPoint Presentation, we have done our research and handpicked our best designs for you. Take a look:

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Four staged balls with change over time PowerPoint template slide