Excel behaving badly in ppt

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Hi,
I'm importing cells from an excel spreadsheet into a ppt presentation
All is fine except some of the gridlines, horizonally are thicker than the
others.
In the spreadsheet in formatting cells are the grid lines are fine.
When I double click in the ppt to on the excel spreadsheet to re-format the
cell borders, nothing happens. Can you show me a way to get all grid lines
the same width in ppt.

Thank you
 
Did you link the file? Try unticking link and reinsert. You should be able to
edit the grid in ppt.
 
Assuming you used insert>object>msoft excel worksheet>create from file you
should see a check box "link" dont check it.
 
If you want to copy /paste use paste special (excel worksheet) and make sure
you have paste selected not paste link
 
yes I've done that formatted cells but no change in Powerpoint, yet when I
copy and paste the same into Word Doc or Paintshop pro or photoshop all the
horizontal lines
are the same width. Tried this on 3 different computers from ppt 2000 to
ppt 2003.

When you double click in ppt on the cells to edit, all is o.k., but when you
come out you get different thickness on the horizontal lines.
 
If you're working with an Excel object on a slide, sometimes some lines look
thicker than others on a slide, even though I know they're really the same
thickness. When I go into Show view, though, they look as they should --
that is, they're the same. Perhaps that's the case here?

Also, see if changing your view of the slide in the PPT editing window to
100% makes it look any different. I know I don't always work at 100% zoom,
and that also seems to cause some odd display things -- like lines not
exactly lining up, different thicknesses, etc. -- but again, when I try it
in show view it looks right and often it looks closer to that at 100% zoom.

If some lines really are thicker in PPT but not in Excel, then you may have
to resort to ungrouping the pasted cells and reapplying lines.

Or you could paste the cells into a PPT table and apply the borders there.
Actually, if you copy cells in Excel and paste onto a slide in PPT 2003
(and, I belive, in PPT 2002 also), you should by default get a PPT table,
which may or may not already have borders applied (depending on what all is
set up in Excel and in your PPT template). In that case, you're working with
a PPT table and you'd set borders using PPT's table toolbar. IIRC, PPT 2000
works differently and pastes an Excel object by default. I might be wrong
about that, though -- can't remember for sure.
 
Ramin,
In PPT, make sure the pasted XL range is sized at 100% of original
size. Changing that is a known issue with what you are seeing.

Brian Reilly, MVP
 
yes I've done that formatted cells but no change in Powerpoint, yet when I
copy and paste the same into Word Doc or Paintshop pro or photoshop all the
horizontal lines
are the same width. Tried this on 3 different computers from ppt 2000 to
ppt 2003.
Click to expand...

What happens when you view the presentation in slide show mode or print it?

It may be just a peculiarity of the way the gridlines display in Normal (edit) mode.
 
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