Microsoft KB Archive/68399

Embedding an Excel 3.00 Chart in PowerPoint PSS ID Number: Q68399 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

To embed a chart from Microsoft Excel 3.00 into PowerPoint for Windows, do the following:

  Start PowerPoint for Windows.   From the File menu, choose Insert and select Excel Chart. This will start Excel with a blank chart window. The chart that you position in this window is the one that will be placed on your slide in PowerPoint.   Create a chart in Excel. This may be done in one of several different ways:  Open an existing Excel chart. Select the chart and copy it to the Clipboard. Then paste the chart into the empty chart window.

-or-  Open or create an Excel spreadsheet with the data you want to graph. Select the appropriate range of cells in the spreadsheet, and copy them to the Clipboard. Then, paste the range into the empty chart window.

-or-  Type the appropriate SERIES functions into the formula bar for the empty chart window. For more information on the SERIES function, see pages 216-217 in the “Microsoft Excel Function Reference” manual.</li></ol> </li>  When the chart is completed, simply choose the Update command from the File menu in Excel. This will embed the Excel chart into the current slide of the active PowerPoint presentation. The Update command replaces the Exit command when Excel is being utilized as an embedded application. </li></ol>

More Information:

To switch between open document windows in Excel for Windows, you can choose the title of the window from the Window menu. The window that contains the chart to be embedded into PowerPoint for Windows will have the title PowerPoint, where is a hexadecimal number that indicates how many times that embedding has been invoked from PowerPoint for Windows, for example: 1PowerPoint.

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