Microsoft KB Archive/68455

Modified Embedded Excel 3.00 Charts Are the Wrong Size PSS ID Number: Q68455 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

An embedded Microsoft Excel 3.00 chart in a Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows presentation may change size after the chart is edited.

More Information:

New Excel charts are embedded into PowerPoint as follows:


 * 1) From the File menu, choose Insert.
 * 2) From the sub-menu choose ExcelChart.

Existing embedded Excel charts can be modified by either double-clicking on the embedded chart object, or by selecting the chart object and choosing Edit ExcelChart from the Edit menu.

In either case, the chart window (while in Excel) will always initially appear at the same default size. If you have resized the chart object as it appears on the PowerPoint slide, then if you do not resize the chart window in Excel, the size of the updated chart on the PowerPoint slide will generally be unchanged when you finish modifying the chart. However, if you change the size of the chart window in Excel, the size of the updated chart on the PowerPoint slide will change to match the resized chart window in Excel.

If the chart was originally given a custom size in Excel, returning to Excel to edit the chart will still cause the chart window in Excel to appear at the default size. The updated chart object will be returned to PowerPoint at the new size in which it appeared in Excel.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.