Tables in Powerpoint

[Chris Watts]

I wish to insert a Word table into Powerpoint 2000.
I have edited the table - 5 columns with 63 row each containing text that
can be accommodated on one line.
I select the table in Word and then paste it into Powerpoint - so far so
good.

When the table appears in Powerpoint the table height is greater than the
height of the slide - but that is OK as I plan to have it scroll up and not
be all visible at one time. But each cell in the table is far too tall.
Its height correponds to one line of my text (12pt) plus one line of
Powepoint default text (24pt). There seems to be an extraneous CR in each
cell - which I can delete. But the cell still says the same size. How can
I reduce the cell height - prefereably for all at once?

TIA
Chris

 

[Luc]

Chris,
It has been a while since I used version 2000 but this shoud work.
Select the table by clicking on the edge, go to Format - Line spacing - make
sure there is no space after or before the paragraph. If both are at 0, try
reducing the line spacing itself, put in 0.5 in stead of one, as your cells
have only one line that should reduce the height of the row.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

One other trick, Chris, is to make sure none of the cells in the Word table
are blank. Whenever PowerPoint sees a blank cell, it tends to change the
text font size to the default for text objects in PowerPoint which is
usually far too large for a table.

Usually, just placing a single space character in all your blank cells in
Word will help bring it over correctly.


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[Chris Watts]

Thanks Luc and Bill. Most useful hints.
In the end I followed Plan B! Convert table to text, in Word, with tab
seperators and paste into a text box in ppt. Much easier then to adjust the
layout with tabs and linespacing.

Chris

 

[Luc]

Chris,
Nice thinking, you solved it.