EXCEL OBJECTS IN POWERPOINT

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When I resize an excel object placed in power point the type size sometimes, not always, resizes and becomes distorted. What good published sources are there on using PowerPoint in an advanced fashion, especially on inserting Excel objects?

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When I resize an excel object placed in power point the type size sometimes, not
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always, resizes and becomes distorted. What good published sources are there on
using PowerPoint in an advanced fashion, especially on inserting Excel objects?

Instead of inserting Excel objects, open the Excel file in Excel, select and copy the
content you want, then switch to PPT and choose Paste Special, put a checkmark next
to Link and click OK.

The results should scale reliably.

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Patrick,
If you resize the chart object as a PPT object it will resize fonts
even if you paste link like Steve suggested.

If you turn off AutoSize fonts in Excel (on the Axis font page, and
set the chartArea Line to none, you can activate the Excel chart in
PPT and resize the PlotArea without affectiving font size.

My preferred method though is to use custom sized charts in Excel so
that when pasted into PPT they will be sized at 100% or original size
and your fonts will always stay sized correctly, especially if you
turn off AutoSizing.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
If you resize the chart object as a PPT object it will resize fonts
even if you paste link like Steve suggested.
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The difference is that as an embedded object (Pasted, not linked) the fonts
don't scale smoothly up and down. They seem to jump from one fixed size to the
next, but the positioning scales smoothly. That can make the object look very
weird at some sizes and fine at others.

Linked shapes (Paste Special, Linked) scale smoothly, fonts 'n all.
If you turn off AutoSize fonts in Excel (on the Axis font page, and
set the chartArea Line to none, you can activate the Excel chart in
PPT and resize the PlotArea without affectiving font size.
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Good for charts, yup. I don't think it applies for ordinary data from the
worksheet though, does it?


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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If you turn off AutoSize fonts in Excel (on the Axis font page, and
Good for charts, yup. I don't think it applies for ordinary data from the
worksheet though, does it?
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Kinda hard to find the Plot Area of a worksheet
Steve++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
That rest was really from Captain so I'll leave it.
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
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