Powerpoint Text from Excel Question

[Guest]

I am creating little reports in Excel (with Text Descriptions) and Copy/Paste
Special Linking them into Powerpoint. I'm finding that Powerpoint messes up
the text a little bit and I cannot figure out why. An example of this is
this:

Unweighted <---- This word is typed into the Excel Chart.
Unw eighted <---- This is how it shows up on my report in Powerpoint.

It is only a few places but my boss wanted me to correct it. Before I tell
him it cannot be changed, I was hoping someone could shed some insight. I'm
using an Arial font Size 8. Nothing special. I've tried printing it on a
black and white laser and a color laser and the results are the same.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am creating little reports in Excel (with Text Descriptions) and Copy/Paste
Special Linking them into Powerpoint. I'm finding that Powerpoint messes up
the text a little bit and I cannot figure out why. An example of this is
this:

Unweighted <---- This word is typed into the Excel Chart.
Unw eighted <---- This is how it shows up on my report in Powerpoint.

It is only a few places but my boss wanted me to correct it. Before I tell
him it cannot be changed, I was hoping someone could shed some insight. I'm
using an Arial font Size 8. Nothing special. I've tried printing it on a
black and white laser and a color laser and the results are the same.

I vaguely recall that there's a problem with small font sizes and that 8pt was
the boundary. See what happens if you bump the text to 9 or 10 points in Excel,
then re-copy/paste/link into PPT.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Steve is correct about 8 points being a magic number. In addition to
his comments, try clicking Tools + Options and on the Printing tab
check the checkbox "Print at Printer Resolution". PowerPoint uses the
printer driver in places that only make sense to the PPT Dev team.

Brian Reilly, MVP