Excel + Powerpoint Mac - Windows incompatibility

[DM]

Hello,

If I insert (or even ³Copy Image²) of a portion of an Excel spreadsheet into
a Powerpoint slide, my Windows (2000) colleagues don¹t get the accented
characters (instead they see a ³tild² character (~) or other strange
characters). The Font used is Arial; should not cause any problem.

If I built a similar table directly into Powerpoint, there is no problem. It
would seem the ³Copy² process from Excel to Powerpoint creates the problem.
I have tried all options without success. Only solution that worked was to
³print screen² the spreadsheet section that I wanted to insert into the
Powerpoint slide and inserted it as an ³image from file².

I suspect the problem is on the Windows side, but I don¹t know how to help
my colleagues (if possible).

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Denis

 

[little_creature]

The problm will be I guess in character encoding. The solution then will be
not to have your tables as text but as image.
I would have a solution, even it's not straightforward it will work. You
have to have your tables as image, that will solve the problem. The way I
found to get them using just excel and Power point is:
1. select your table in Excel ad press apple+C
2. navigate to PowerPoint and hit apple +v
Now you inserted table that will not be correct for your PC colleagues so
3. select the table in PowerPoint and in context menu select save as
picture- save it where ever you want.
4. delete the table in PowerPoint you pasted by apple+v and navigate to
insert>picture and choose the table you save as image. This will work. You
can as well use any Graphic editor to generate the picture from the table.
Hope this will help.

 

[DM]

I am not sure what you mean by "context menu". I am assuming you mean the
"File"menu where you find the "Save As" command.

So what you suugest is to Save As a picture (what type is best? PNG, JPEG,
Bit Map???) a new 1-slide ppt where the table has been inserted the normal
way from Excel.

I tried and the end result however is a very low res table; maybe the Image
type?.

Thanks.

 

[little_creature]

Hi,
By "context menu" I meant to click on the table to select it and then
control+mouse click will evoke menu where you can *save picture*. From the
supported formats I would choose either GIF or PNG. Try what will give you
the best results. I would not recommend you to save is as JPG, because it's
loose compression and that's why you get low res image.

 

[DM]

It works, but once again, the image quality is quite bad (png or gif).
It think the "print screen" method is better from that std-point (but a bit
more complicated.

Tks.