This article shows you how to create a chart in PowerPoint using the data from an existing Excel document. This solution relies on Spire.Office.jar. Please download the latest version from here and add it as a dependency in your project.
Below is a screenshot of the Excel document.
import com.spire.presentation.FileFormat; import com.spire.presentation.Presentation; import com.spire.presentation.SlideSizeType; import com.spire.presentation.charts.ChartStyle; import com.spire.presentation.charts.ChartType; import com.spire.presentation.charts.IChart; import com.spire.xls.Workbook; import com.spire.xls.Worksheet; import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D; public class CreateChartFromExcelData { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { //Create a Presentation object Presentation presentation = new Presentation(); presentation.getSlideSize().setType(SlideSizeType.SCREEN_16_X_9); //Add a clustered column chart to slide Rectangle2D rect = new Rectangle2D.Float(200, 100, 550, 320); IChart chart = presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().appendChart(ChartType.COLUMN_CLUSTERED,rect); //Clear the default dummy data chart.getChartData().clear(0,0,5,5 ); //Load an existing Excel file to Workbook object Workbook wb = new Workbook(); wb.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\data.xlsx"); //Get the first worksheet Worksheet sheet = wb.getWorksheets().get(0); //Import data from the sheet to chart table for (int r = 0; r < sheet.getAllocatedRange().getRowCount(); r++) { for (int c = 0; c < sheet.getAllocatedRange().getColumnCount(); c++) { chart.getChartData().get(r,c).setValue(sheet.getCellRange(r+1, c+1).getValue2()); } } //Add chart title chart.getChartTitle().getTextProperties().setText("Male/Female Ratio Per Dept."); chart.getChartTitle().getTextProperties().isCentered(true); chart.getChartTitle().setHeight(25f); chart.hasTitle(true); //Set the series label chart.getSeries().setSeriesLabel(chart.getChartData().get("B1","C1")); //Set the category labels chart.getCategories().setCategoryLabels(chart.getChartData().get("A2","A5")); //Set the series values chart.getSeries().get(0).setValues(chart.getChartData().get("B2","B5")); chart.getSeries().get(1).setValues(chart.getChartData().get("C2", "C5")); //Apply built-in chart style chart.setChartStyle(ChartStyle.STYLE_11); //Set overlap chart.setOverLap(-50); //Set gap width chart.setGapWidth(200); //Save to file presentation.saveToFile("output/Chart.pptx", FileFormat.PPTX_2013); } }