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Placing Excel charts into other Office applications

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Placing Excel charts into other Office applications

You may have created the world's most gorgeous charts, but that doesn't necessarily mean your work is done. Now, everyone you're showing your charts to wants an Excel sheet. You might need to place your charts and maybe the underlying data into another document. You might need to put your work into another Microsoft application like Word or PowerPoint, but you also might need to put your work into a non-Microsoft application that maybe doesn't work with Excel all that well. So let's take a look at some possibilities. First, let's start here in Excel and just select the chart. Copy to the Clipboard. I'll press Ctrl+C and now let's switch into Microsoft Word. In Word, we have open this file called Insert Pie Chart and let's just paste. I'll press Ctrl+V to paste. Looks okay and down here I'll click the Options button and you see we have a few different options to choose from. I am going to choose the middle one here Use Destination Theme & Link Data. The operative phrase is Link Data…

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