Pasting to PPT

[Don Niall]

Hi,

This happens to me frequently so I am hoping someone might
have a resolution.

I have prepared a table in excel, and encapsulated that
table in a colored 'heavy-line' border for presentation
purposes.

When I paste to PPT as a bit-map or device independant bit-
map, only two of the colored borders appear (right and
bottom). Meanwhile if I paste as a picture I 'lose' the
color formatting of the text. I do not want to paste as an
excel object as I find I can manipulate much better (in
terms of sizing) if I paste as picture or bitmap.

Any ideas?

-Don.

 

[Eric]

Don,

That happens to me all the time. The easiest way I've
found to trick Powerpoint is to create a small "cell
border" around the table I created. In other word, create
blank columns and rows immediately around your table and
change their width or height to, say, 3. Now, when you
copy your table to Excel, copy that cell border as well.
It should keep that heavy line you created.

Eric