How to move Microsoft Excel images to Powerpoint

Powerpoint is the common application that companies and individuals use to create and give presentations. These presentations will often include charts, tables, and data from Excel. Moving items from Excel to Powerpoint can be frustrating but is really easy with a few basic steps.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• A computer with Microsoft Office installed.

1. Have your Powerpoint presentation and your Excel file open on your computer.
2. In Excel highlight the area that you want to move to Powerpoint.
3. Keeping the area highlighted pull down the “Edit” drop down menu from the top navigation.
4. Mouse to “Copy” in this drop down menu. You will notice that the highlighted area in Excel is now outlined by a moving hashed line.
5. Move to the specific location in your Powerpoint file where you want the Excel file to go.
6. In Powerpoint pull down the “Edit” drop down menu and mouse to “Paste Special”.
7. In the resulting pop up message select “Picture” and hit “OK”.
8. Your Excel object will now be in your Powerpoint slide. You can manually adjust the size and location.

Tips & Warnings

• Save your work frequently. Microsoft Office products crash often. This can result in a loss of all of your work. Be sure to save your work at least every 5 minutes to protect yourself against a computer crash.