Pasting cells from Excel into the cells of a PowerPoint Table

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Wayne.Miller@gat.com - 25 Jul 2006 17:51 GMT

Is there a way to paste many cells at one time from Excel into a
PowerPoint table?

I've set up a table in PowerPoint. I want to paste selected cells from
an Excel sheet into the cells in the PowerPoint table. If I paste one
cell at a time, it works ok using Paste Special -->Unformatted Text.
However, if I try to paste more two or more cells at once, it comes
over as a new table. I can do this from Excel into Word. Why not into
PowerPoint?

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Priyanka Singhal - 25 Jul 2006 22:48 GMT

> Is there a way to paste many cells at one time from Excel into a
> PowerPoint table?
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> over as a new table. I can do this from Excel into Word. Why not into
> PowerPoint?

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for posting this issue.Tables in PowerPoint are different from Word
tables. I will investigate and log this issue.However, to workaround this
issue :
1. Copy multiple cells from excel
2. Paste special as unformatted text anywhere outside the table or in one
cell of table in PPT
3. Cut the text , select the cells of the table in which you want to paste
and paste.

Please let me know if this does not work or if you have other questions.
Thanks,
Priyanka
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Wayne.Miller@gat.com - 26 Jul 2006 05:55 GMT

Priyanka,

Thank you for the work around. It's not very elegant, but it works!
It is much better than cutting and pasting one cell at a time!

Since both are part of Microsoft Office, I wonder why is there such
poor compatability between Excel and PowerPoint????

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Pasting cells from Excel into the cells of a PowerPoint Table