Powerpoint Paste Link from Excel Truncates Spreadsheet

Anonymous
2016-08-17T14:20:41+00:00

Hello,

I am trying to link a Powerpoint Presentation to an Excel spreadsheet.  I have copied a table in Excel into PowerPoint using the Copy Paste Special -> Paste Link feature.  At first, this looks great.  Updates I make to the Excel Spreadsheet automatically update in PowerPoint and all the formatting looks right.

However, after saving, closing, and re-opening the Powerpoint file, the Spreadsheet has been truncated.  It is missing about 1/2 of a column and about 3 rows.  I tried to update the link, and even to delete the table and re-paste the linked spreadsheet, and nothing seems to work.  It doesn't appear to be an issue with the size, because I copied/pasted just a small table (4x2) as a test and it did the same thing.

Does anyone have any ideas for how to solve this?

Thanks,

Alan

Microsoft 365 and Office | PowerPoint | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-10T12:43:52+00:00

    And it does this even if I copy one cell from Excel.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-10T12:41:01+00:00

    I am also experiencing this problem, and it appears to have started when I was issued with a new work pc.

    I copy a range in excel using Ctrl + C.

    In powerpoint I right-click to get paste options and choose the 'Paste As Picture' option

    The pasted picture is cropped on the right and the bottom.

    The entire range is included if I paste as html, but it does not include items such as gridlines.

    I can paste as bitmaps, but this pastes format free areas as white instead of transparent as I used to get.  

    This is more time consuming and does not suit some of the presentations I am used to updating.

    Zooming my screen does not work for me.

    I use an HP Elitebook 840 GP

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-02-16T18:03:09+00:00

    I got an email notice that K_B_GSOrg had posted detailed steps and screenshots, but it's not showing up here, and all the images are broken.

    Big thumbs up.

    Hello Benjamin_Birney_2017, 

    A thread that you are following on Microsoft Community has received a reply from K_B_GSOrg. 

    Title: Powerpoint Paste Link from Excel Truncates Spreadsheet

    Reply:

    Hi,

    I’d be glad to provide exact and detailed steps which produce the problem as this has become very frustrating for me and I would like a solution.

    Here is my Windows version:

    Here is my PowerPoint version:

     Here are the steps for the paste as image issue:

    1. I copy the selection in excel
    2. I paste image into Outlook/ Word/ OneNote and the selection is cut off

    Outlook:

    Word:

    OneNote:

    Read this reply on Microsoft Community.

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