Excel charts copied into Powerpoint

[Guest]

rWhen I paste (or paste link) such charts the fonts used for legend in Excel
are changed (NUGS) into anothe font by Powerpoint. I have tried to chase any
other indication of fonts in the underlying Excel sheet (or Powerpoint
options) so that the wanted font appears everywhere, yet Powerpoint imposes
the TimesNewRoman font when it decides to .

How do I get PPT to reflect the font selected under Excel?

Thanks,

Pierre

 

[Guest]

Pierre,

do you need to link the charts? If not a good workaround which I use all
the time is hold down the shift key while you click on edit. You should now
see the option to copy picture - the rest is easy. Also works from
spreadsheet data where you to highlight the area of interest on your
spreadsheet and then shift + edit, copy picture. Has the added advantage of
much smaller file sizes for the final presentation - although the
disadvantage of having to replace the image each time the data changes.

Hope this helps,

David

 

[Guest]

David, Thanks,
It did not work, but then I found out that it was because all these
different graphs had been designed on the same sheet with different sizes
each.
If instead all the graphs were planted each in its own sheet then there was
no problem in the transfer of the graph, and it looked the same way in PPT as
it did in the original individual sheet in Excel.
Pierre

 

[Echo S]

Nice detective work, Pierre. Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the
problem.

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

Pierre,
Another good reason to mostly use Chart Sheets instead of charts on
worksheets.
But there's another setting in PPT in Tools + Options + Print tab to
to Print inserted objects at printer resolution. If this is not
checked fonts that PPT thinks are <8 points go to Times Roman. Check
this and it will print as original font name even if chart is rescaled
down.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP