paste special as link in powerpoint 2008 for excell charts

[lisam]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

What happened to that feature it does not appear to be there. paste special as excel graphic... does not seem to maintain link.

 

[CyberTaz]

What do you mean "What happened to..."? Mac PPT has never supported linking
for anything other than graphics & sounds. You can embed the copied content
as an Excel Object but you can't link to the source file.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

What happened to that feature it does not appear to be there. paste special as excel graphic... does not seem to maintain link.

Hi

There's a couple different ways to link your PowerPoint chart to an
Excel data source.

Remember that in 2008 the default way of making a chart puts you into
Excel. While in Excel you copy the data range from the source workbook
and the switch to the PowerPoint's Excel data range and then use Edite >
Paste Special > Paste Link to paste the source workbook's data range as
a link into the PowerPoint's Excel data range.

-Jim