character spacing when importing from excel to ppt

[Guest]

I am having problems with the character spacing when importing a chart from
excel to powerpoint. I read the suggestion of going to the wordart toolbar
and turning the "kerning" off but the wordart toolbar is greyed out and I
cannot use it.

Any suggestions?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

What version of PowerPoint are you using?


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[Guest]

It is Powerpoint 2003

What version of PowerPoint are you using?


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[Bill Dilworth]

In PowerPoint 2003, if you want to adjust the character spacing, you will
need to ungroup the chart (until it will not ungroup anymore).

Then you will need to convert each of the labels to WordArt. Then repeat
the conversion for each of labels.

This is not a fast or easy process and the chart will no longer link to the
data (no updates).

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Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
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[Steve Rindsberg]

I am having problems with the character spacing when importing a chart from
excel to powerpoint. I read the suggestion of going to the wordart toolbar
and turning the "kerning" off but the wordart toolbar is greyed out and I
cannot use it.

Perhaps it's a slightly different problem. I find that when I copy/paste stuff
from Excel to PPT and resize it in PPT, the text doesn't increase/decrease size
smoothly. Instead it stays the same size then JUMPS a couple points at a time.
Odd. The spacing scales smoothly but the text doesn't, with the result that
the spacing goes ... pardon the technotalk ... wonko and bad ugly.

I find that if I select the content in Excel then Edit, Paste Special, Link
into PPT, the charts scale more smoothly.

Give that a shot.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Steve,

I really need to get used to you having this weird display name in the
public groups

Patrick

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve,

I really need to get used to you having this weird display name in the
public groups

What??? You mean my prose style doesn't give me away? ;-)

 

[Patrick Schmid]

LOL. Well..the "(e-mail address removed)" is rather odd to see as your
display name when you have seen "Steve Rindsberg" for months...

Patrick

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

LOL. Well..the "(e-mail address removed)" is rather odd to see as your
display name when you have seen "Steve Rindsberg" for months...

A bug in NewsHound, perhaps? I supplied both a display name (Steve Rindsberg)
and a spam-resistant email address ([email protected])

Here (using Virtual Access) I see the display name rather than the email
address.

I wonder which (email or name) people more commonly see?

LOL. Well..the "(e-mail address removed)" is rather odd to see as your

display name when you have seen "Steve Rindsberg" for months...

Patrick

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