Copying PPT data back into Excel

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ArmchairCowboy - 01 Nov 2007 21:26 GMT

I received a PPT presentation from our corporate office today that contains
many Excel tables--financial data. Anyway, these tables are not linked
directly to Excel files, they are pictures.

I am wondering if/how to take copy these pictures back into Excel. There
are quite a few and I don't want to recreate all before dropping in our
numbers.

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Bill Dilworth - 01 Nov 2007 22:20 GMT

Print the charts out on paper and use them as your guide while recreating
them.

Unfortunately there is no way to get an Excel spreadsheet data or layout
back from a flat graphic version of it. The only thing I would double check
before biting the bullet and building from scratch would be to try double
clicking the sheets in PowerPoint to see if you enter edit mode in them.
There is a chance that they were embedded but not linked (meaning they are
not true graphics and can be cut and pasted back into Excel).

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>I received a PPT presentation from our corporate office today that contains
> many Excel tables--financial data. Anyway, these tables are not linked
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> Thanks

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ChrisHarrington - 02 Nov 2007 03:06 GMT

Not sure what you mean by "pictures". Are they chart objects? Or are they
raster images?

>I received a PPT presentation from our corporate office today that contains
> many Excel tables--financial data. Anyway, these tables are not linked
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>
> Thanks

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