PP diagram to Excel

[Guest]

Is it at all possible to convert a PP picture to an Excel spreadsheet? I'm
guessing no but praying yes.

Thank you!
Kelly

 

[Echo S]

Not really. Assuming it's a spreadsheet, I suppose you could scan it using
OCR and dump that from Word into Excel.

If it's graph data you're after, you might check into GrabIt.
http://www.datatrendsoftware.com/

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

Kelly,
Echo got as confused as I am by your question. (g)

Do you just want to make a picture of the PPT slide and insert that
into Excel? If so, I think you can make the PPT page as you see fit,
then do a File + SaveAs and choose the PictureFormat you want (we'd
all recommend .PNG) and save the file as a single page.

Then in Excel, just Insert the picture and move it where you want.

If that is not the idea, feel free to confuse Echo and me more.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Guest]

Hi Brian and Echo -

Thanks for your replies and I'm happy to add to the confusion! I have a
floor plan that's in powerpoint now. I've converted to a picture file
already. But I wanted to put the floor plan in Excel because there are
additional fields that I'd like to add which would link to another Excel
(budget) file. Basically I'm working the occupancy piece of the '06 budget
and as every office gets assigned occupancy, I wanted to add a field related
to the square footage in the floor plan and link that number to the budget
spreadsheets so it can easily be changed, updated, whatever, in the future.
I just didn't want to have to create the floor plan itself in Excel. But
seems I may have to. Did that help or am I still confusing?

thanks for your assistance!
Kelly

 

[Echo S]

I think you can put a picture in the background of an Excel spreadsheet.
That may be enough for what you need to do.

Sorry, I don't know the details of how to do that, though. If nobody pops in
with any specifics or other ideas, you might want to post in one of the
Excel groups.

Then again, Brian mentioned
So I'd probably start with exactly that!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Kelly,

Excel and PowerPoint add confusion enough, but why stop there when we're having
fun? Have you ever looked at Visio?

I haven't needed to use it in quite some time, but it seems as though it's just
what the doc ordered for a floor plan + data project.

Try describing what you're after in the visio newsgroup and see what you come
up with.

 

[Guest]

thanks Steve. Fortunately my project wasn't anything critical, I was just
trying something out. But, not finding an easy solution and having other
things to get done, I just abandoned it. But will keep Visio in mind.
Thanks!