Excel Charts in Powerpoint Cannot be Sized Without Distortion?

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MarvInBoise - 22 Feb 2007 15:55 GMT

Copy/paste special as picture and even shift/edit/copy picture charts from
Excel to powerpoint and want to fill entire slide. Some charts are on
individual sheet tabs, others are embedded as they are 2-, 3-, or 4-up
charts. When pasted into Powerpoint they are not sized corrected, i.e., do
not always fill the entire slide, and when I try to size them the fonts
distort terribly. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

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Bill Dilworth - 23 Feb 2007 01:39 GMT

The key to doing this is to make sure the chart is at the right aspect ratio
before copying it from Excel. The whole chart should be the same width vs.
height as the PowerPoint slide (usually 4:3 or 10 inches wide and 7.5 inches
high). When you paste it as a picture into PowerPoint it is just that, a
picture. It can be distorted by changing this aspect ratio.

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> Copy/paste special as picture and even shift/edit/copy picture charts from
> Excel to powerpoint and want to fill entire slide. Some charts are on
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MarvInBoise - 23 Feb 2007 15:06 GMT

Thanks Bill, I'll give it a shot. I played a bit in Office2007, and it
appears that this problem "may" be fixed!

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> The key to doing this is to make sure the chart is at the right aspect ratio
> before copying it from Excel. The whole chart should be the same width vs.
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