Pasting from Excel Office 2000 vs 2003

[wiseman]

I did a couple of slides a while back when I was on Office 2000, copied from
excel and pasted in to PowerPoint. Now I needed to update the figures, I
now have Office 2003 so I changed them in the excel spreadsheet, then copied
and pasted in the PowerPoint. The words and numbers were tiny with big
spaces round each one. I did this on an Office 2000 machine with the same
excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint and the paste was smaller, but when dragged
bigger the numbers and words had much less space between them.
I know very little about PowerPoint, I am really an excel user. Is there a
difference in the defaults excel or PowerPoint 2003 use compared to 2000?
If so could someone please explain how I can get 2003 to act like 2000 in
this respect.
Thanks a lot,
Barbara

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I did a couple of slides a while back when I was on Office 2000, copied from
excel and pasted in to PowerPoint. Now I needed to update the figures, I
now have Office 2003 so I changed them in the excel spreadsheet, then copied
and pasted in the PowerPoint. The words and numbers were tiny with big
spaces round each one. I did this on an Office 2000 machine with the same
excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint and the paste was smaller, but when dragged
bigger the numbers and words had much less space between them.
I know very little about PowerPoint, I am really an excel user. Is there a
difference in the defaults excel or PowerPoint 2003 use compared to 2000?
If so could someone please explain how I can get 2003 to act like 2000 in
this respect.

Instead of pasting in your Excel data, try paste/linking it instead.

Linking information from Excel
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00593.htm

Linking instead of embedding seems to solve the problem you're describing with
the text.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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