Paste linked Excel woksheet in Powerpoint

[nleviet]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I have been looking for a solution to a simple problem and did not find anything exhaustive yet.

In Windows, when I want to link an Excel worksheet data into Powerpoint, I just copy from Excel and through the Paste Special option, select Paste Link into Powerpoint. Thus, when I updated the data in Excel, it is automatically updated in Powerpoint.

In Office or Mac, it seems that this is not the case. When I copy some data from Excel to Powerpoint, the only option I have under the Paste Special menu, is ... Paste as. If I select Excel Worksheet object, the data is pasted in the slide but not link to the original file. There is no options to link the existing Excel worksheet to a Powerpoint slide.

Does anybody have any idea how to do this? Linking a graph work without problems, even if the process is cumbersome but not a worksheet.

Thank you,

Nam

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I have been looking for a solution to a simple problem and did not find anything exhaustive yet.

In Windows, when I want to link an Excel worksheet data into Powerpoint, I just copy from Excel and through the Paste Special option, select Paste Link into Powerpoint. Thus, when I updated the data in Excel, it is automatically updated in Powerpoint.

In Office or Mac, it seems that this is not the case. When I copy some data from Excel to Powerpoint, the only option I have under the Paste Special menu, is ... Paste as. If I select Excel Worksheet object, the data is pasted in the slide but not link to the original file. There is no options to link the existing Excel worksheet to a Powerpoint slide.

Does anybody have any idea how to do this? Linking a graph work without problems, even if the process is cumbersome but not a worksheet.

Thank you,

Nam

Hi,

This URL should be of help:
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/linkgraph.htm

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP


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