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
    2018-06-08T20:44:40+00:00

    INSANE. 

    I thought I was losing my mind trying to fix this. No one seemed to understand. When I saw this - I thought you posted in the wrong feed.

    This worked!

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-24T03:10:38+00:00

    I had the same issue and solved it by simply changed the display to 150%.

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T19:43:35+00:00

    Hi All,

    I tried everything in this thread and nothing worked until I set the magnification zoom level at 100%. I've never touched this setting before, but I found it set at 200%. This setting is found under "Windows Settings"->"Ease of Access"->"Magnifier".  Good luck out there

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-04-04T18:28:05+00:00

    Okay, thanks, I will give it a try!  

    You mean display settings for all of windows, not just within office applications?

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