Problems pasting part of an Excel file into Powerpoint

[polarcup]

Hi

I am trying to copy and paste 8 columns from an excel worksheet into a blank slide in powerpoint and every time that I do this, I lose the right most column. I have tried resizing etc.
Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance

Stu

 

[Killian01]

yeah... you'd think this wasn't too much to ask but it does cause problems and what you need to do is paste it over to PowerPoint in two chunks (zoom in, line them up, group & then scale if required)

Basically, the table truncates at a certain number of columns because it's too large to fit on the clipboard.
I know it sounds a bit lame - exactly why a few columns of Excel don't fit on your Windows clipboard when your swapdisk is set at 100's of mB has never been fully explained by my Tech guys who curse Microsoft and then ramble on about hardware, memory & graphics cards in the hope that I'll lose interest and not realise they don't actually know themselves.

 

[WebGodiva]

I have run accross this problem many times. It is possible to do, I have some spredsheets that are pasted that are 25+ columns across.

It just requires a little patience. When you highlight your data and copy it, go to powerpoint and hit paste. Once you have it there, double click on it to activate the spreadsheet. Once you have done that you should be able to size it by grabbing the grey squares on the size box. Most times it is set to small and you have to work with it a few times to get it right. It is possible however to get everything to fit especially with only eight columns. Just make sure you grab the handles and not the grey lines.

If you still run into problems, you could e-mail the file to me at yvonneh@site-blauvelt.com and I would be happy to see if i can fix it up for you.

Hope this helped.