excel paste in powerpoint

[shawn]

When I paste a chart from Excel to PowerPoint the chart is
distorted. For example, the legend is huge and covers up
a good portion of the graph. I use the paste
special/picture option of pasting.

A few weeks ago all was fine but not things are
distorted. This only happens on a my PC. Other PCs in
the office paste the chart without the distortion.

My version of Excel is 9.0.6926 SP-3 (others in the office
have the same version).

Any ideas what is going wrong?

 

[Jon Peltier]

This might not help, but it's worth a try. Hold Shift while selecting
Copy Picture from the Edit menu in Excel, to copy the chart as a
picture. This way, PowerPoint may not get the opportunity to mess up the
chart while converting it to a picture.

Otherwise it sounds like something is now broken, and you might have to
reinstall Excel or Office. I think Office 9 (2000) comes with some kind
of repair utility, but I've never had the need to try it out.

- Jon

 

[Nicky]

Another way around this may be to paste as link, which seems to retai
more of the appearance of the original. Even if you then immediatel
break the link, the appearance remains closer to the original than
straight copy and paste

 

[Sherry]

If you already haven't done this, try it:

1) Copy the chart to your clipboard
2) Go to Powerpoint
3) Choose Edit, paste special, paste OR paste link

I'm having a problem JUST ON MY MACHINE where the Y Axis'
Title is truncating when I copy and paste! It's driving
me crazy....but it works fine on other people's systems.
My IT people are trying to figure it out. They've re-
installed Excel too.

 

[jenlook]

I'm having the same truncated y-axis label problem. It also happens when
I paste into Word. It seems to be document-specific for me. If I copy
the data to a new Excel workbook, re-make the chart, save the new file
and copy from there, the entire axis title shows up.

 

[Jon Peltier]

This is a frustrating problem. Some people never have it, a few can't
avoid it, and for some it comes and goes. I've been lucky. There's no
satisfying workaround for it.

- Jon