Excel charts to Powerpoint

[Guest]

Office 2003.

When I paste an excel chart into powerpoint, it's not pasting
proportionally. I've added text boxes to the chart (in Excel). Also, the
original chart is a full page in Excel, however when I paste it into
Powerpoint, it's being reduced in size. when I enlarge it, the text boxes
(that I added) then overlap one another in powerpoint. This isn't the case
when they are in Excel. I just switched from '97 to 2003 and this wasn't a
problem before.

Is there a setting that I can change. I'm currently having to paste as a
bitmap to keep everything sized correctly, however, I lose the link to the
excel sheet if I need to make changes.

I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

There are two things you should do to resolve your problems.
1. Place all charts on chart sheets and not on worksheets and then use
custom sized page sizes in XL so that when the chart is pasted into
PPT, and it is sized at 100% of original size it will be an exact
match.
2. Group the text boxes in Excel with the chart object on the chart
sheet before copying.

Brian Reilly, MVP