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Alex Zimmerhaven
Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance for all of the great work you guys do! Thank you for
taking time to answer these questions!
Well, here's my issue. I was giving an Office 2007 presentation today. My
users saw that when you created a chart in PowerPoint 2007, it used the Excel
2007 charting engine - which means you could see the data in an Excel 2007
spreadsheet. (instead of that old PowerPoint 2003 charting engine)
Well, they got excited and thought that there might be someway they could
bring the chart and data over from Excel 2007 - in such a way, that
PowerPoint 2007 would see the chart and data as "it's own".
So - instead of Pasting in the chart from Excel 2007 as:
1) Excel Object
2) Static Image (JPG, etc.)
3) Linked object
They wanted to circumvent all of that and somehow use the PowerPoint 2007
Excel spreadsheet engine and put the chart and data over to that - so
PowerPoint 2007 would see the chart as "it's own".
I'm not sure if all of this makes sense or not. I do recall - back in
"PowerPoint 2003" you could "import" data into the PowerPoint 2003 charting
engine. I'm not quite seeting this option in PowerPoint 2007. However, that
really doesn't address their question as much - since they are trying to
bring the chart and the data over.
The problem they are having is that the managers are creating "Links"
between Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003, and then just taking the presentation
with them and not the "links".
So - I guess the short answer to all of this - are my users going to need to
continue to bring charts over to PowerPoint 2007 the way they always have?
Or is there some newfangled shortuct/method since we now have the "Excel 2007
charting engine" in PowerPoint 2007.
Thank you again to all of the MVP's out there. You guys are lifesavers!
Thanks,
Alex Zimmerhaven
Thanks in advance for all of the great work you guys do! Thank you for
taking time to answer these questions!
Well, here's my issue. I was giving an Office 2007 presentation today. My
users saw that when you created a chart in PowerPoint 2007, it used the Excel
2007 charting engine - which means you could see the data in an Excel 2007
spreadsheet. (instead of that old PowerPoint 2003 charting engine)
Well, they got excited and thought that there might be someway they could
bring the chart and data over from Excel 2007 - in such a way, that
PowerPoint 2007 would see the chart and data as "it's own".
So - instead of Pasting in the chart from Excel 2007 as:
1) Excel Object
2) Static Image (JPG, etc.)
3) Linked object
They wanted to circumvent all of that and somehow use the PowerPoint 2007
Excel spreadsheet engine and put the chart and data over to that - so
PowerPoint 2007 would see the chart as "it's own".
I'm not sure if all of this makes sense or not. I do recall - back in
"PowerPoint 2003" you could "import" data into the PowerPoint 2003 charting
engine. I'm not quite seeting this option in PowerPoint 2007. However, that
really doesn't address their question as much - since they are trying to
bring the chart and the data over.
The problem they are having is that the managers are creating "Links"
between Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003, and then just taking the presentation
with them and not the "links".
So - I guess the short answer to all of this - are my users going to need to
continue to bring charts over to PowerPoint 2007 the way they always have?
Or is there some newfangled shortuct/method since we now have the "Excel 2007
charting engine" in PowerPoint 2007.
Thank you again to all of the MVP's out there. You guys are lifesavers!
Thanks,
Alex Zimmerhaven