Embedded Excel worksheet in PowerPoint

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I'm working with an embedded excel worksheet in powerponit. The doc is sent
to me and if I have to edit the worksheet, I find that some cells have
missing characters once I open the worksheet to edit it. It appears that
characters beyond some length (256?) are being truncated off. How do I
resolve this so I don't have this problem again?

Thanks,
Barb Reinhardt
 
This kind of problem may occur if the material was inserted into the embedded
worksheet via copy/paste from an external sheet. A reliable approach is to
open the embedded sheet first, and from that sheet do:

File > Open... to open the external sheet

At this point cell-wise copy/paste should not drop characters
 
Thanks. It makes no sense, but it works.

Gary''s Student said:
This kind of problem may occur if the material was inserted into the embedded
worksheet via copy/paste from an external sheet. A reliable approach is to
open the embedded sheet first, and from that sheet do:

File > Open... to open the external sheet

At this point cell-wise copy/paste should not drop characters
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I think the reason it works is that it insures that only one instance of
Excel is open. Somehow this uses a different Clipboard, which permits more
material in the copy paste
 
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