Modifying Excell spreadsheets

[RonH]

I am in a support group that supports a couple thousand users at a large
company. I have a client who has a Powerpoint presentation that she has to
present every month and within this presentation there are several excel
spreadsheets. These spreadsheets need to be updated each month with current
information. She said in the past she could double-click on the spreadsheet
and she was able to edit it within powerpoint and when she saved it, it would
auto adjust the size of the spreadsheet to fit within the same diameters as
the spreadsheet before it was modified. What she is doing in some instances
is widening the columns to compensate for langer data fields. She is no
longer able to do this, the spreadsheets no longer auto adjust and exceed the
width of the powerpoint slide. I'm not sure when it stopped working or if
ever really did. Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[John Wilson]

Hi Ron

I guess the excel ss was inserted as an object. It should resize itself IF
its in a placeholder AND you have automatic layout for inserted objects
ticked in Tools > autocorrect options

Make sure the auto correct option is ticked
Choose a layout eg title + content with a content placeholder
Select the placeholder and insert > object > the excel file

See if that does it.
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