Thanks for letting me know how you're creating the charts. If you were
copying/pasting from Excel, that links to PPT now, so it could have been
an
issue of you not saving the Excel file. But since you're using Insert |
Chart in PPT, that embeds the Excel chart -- no need for you to save
anything there.
Anyway, that makes me think it's an antivirus issue. As an example,
Norton
has known issues with the Office plug-in causing these types of issues.
Here's the fix for it: Norton Anti-Virus and Office
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00387.htm Other A/V software may have similar
issues.
As for Diagnostics/Detect and Repair, go to Office Button | PPT Options |
Resources and run diagnostics from there.
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Thanks for checking back, I have a friend at work who isn't having
this
problem (same OFFICE 07 suite), so it's probably just my computer (I'll
have
my IT guys check it over/detect and repair).
but....
no, even if I open up EXCEL first, I can't get the chart data to show
up.
I create the charts in power point by using the INSERT CHART symbol.
That
opens up EXCEL in a separate window and I put the labels and data into
the
excel chart. It looks good and I can close out EXCEL and move to other
ppt
slides to do work. As long as I don't close out powerpoint, I can come
back
to that chart slide and pull up the excel data using the EDIT DATA
button.
The problem comes when I SAVE the ppt file and close out and try to
come
back
to the slideshow to do work later. Now when I try to EDIT DATA
underneath
a
chart the excel window does not appear no matter what I try (double
clicking
the chart, EDIT DATA, right click EDIT DATA, etc.)
I'm saving the ppt file in the STANDARD format .pptx, I was originally
saving in 97-2003 format but got messages that the charts would not be
editable if I did.
I did see some posts about the same type of problem, but one of the
"solutions" was to put a registry key in to make it handle charts like
ppt2003 version and another was a workaround that didn't use INSERT
CHART,
it used INSERT OBJECT CREATE NEW, then BROWSE for the EXCEL CHART you
wanted.
Sounds like my computer and not a software issue (which is all I was
worried
about), so I'll let you know if my IT guys can't fix it. Thanks
again.