Viewing and Printing Excel work in Powerpoint

[dhhorwich]

When I paste special an excel spreadsheet into a ppt presentation,
oftimes I (and others I may forward it to) the data in the picture is
unreadable and unprintable (it comes out looking like a black square
at each data point). Any suggestions?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Are you using MathType?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

When I paste special an excel spreadsheet into a ppt presentation,
oftimes I (and others I may forward it to) the data in the picture is
unreadable and unprintable (it comes out looking like a black square
at each data point). Any suggestions?

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[dhhorwich]

Hi,

Are you using MathType?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP



--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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wouldn't know if I am or not? More information as I've been playing
around some more: this seems to happen principally when I try to edit
printing handouts using grayscale. Thanks for your help, Jim. If I go
to full slides in color, things seem to be ok.

 

[Bob Mathews]

And Jim asked:

Then dhhorwich responded:

wouldn't know if I am or not? More information as I've been
playing around some more: this seems to happen
principally when I try to edit printing handouts using
grayscale. Thanks for your help, Jim. If I go to full slides
in color, things seem to be ok.

I think we can conclude, based on your response, that you're not
using MathType. The reason I think Jim asked the question is that
PPT has a hard time scaling down "metafile graphics", which
MathType and Equation Editor equations are, and this is
especially noticeable when printing handouts with more than 2
slides per page.

I have also noticed a problem with PPT printing certain graphics
in grayscale. Our company logo, for example. I have had pretty
good success printing in "color" mode to a B&W printer, and
sometimes even in B&W mode. Oddly enough, sometimes graphics that
don't show up in grayscale do show up in B&W. It's worth a shot.

--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
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[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

Thanks for responding! I think there's a cure.

I made an add-in that addresses this problem:
http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/PowerPoint/GSToolbar/GSTool.htm

But this add-in doesn't do anything more than you can do already in
PowerPoint. It just makes it more convenient.

First, select a picture. On the PowerPoint menu is a grayscale button.
Click it to make the picture grayscale. Then when you right-click
(control-click) on the picture you'll find grayscale adjustments. You'll
discover that changing those settings will most likely correct the problem.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

wouldn't know if I am or not? More information as I've been playing
around some more: this seems to happen principally when I try to edit
printing handouts using grayscale. Thanks for your help, Jim. If I go
to full slides in color, things seem to be ok.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info