Using Excel data in PowerPoint

Before we can use Excel data in PowerPoint, we have…to have a way to get our Excel data to PowerPoint.…Much of the time, that will begin by starting with…our Excel spreadsheet, because we created a spreadsheet, or somebody else…does, that has this data we'd like to present, whether we're…presenting it as a chart or presenting it as a table.…So we could select a chart for example, or we could choose…to select some data.…I'm going to select four months of data here, out…of this section of our solar energy cost and payback estimator.…

Now I need to copy it.…I can either right-click and choose Copy here or I can go…up to the Clipboard Group in the Home Tab and click Copy.…Either way, I want it in my clipboard.…And now I want to switch over to PowerPoint.…If PowerPoint's…already running I can just Alt+Tab to get there, if not I'll…want to go ahead and start my presentation by clicking the Start menu.…But here we are in our presentation.…Now I want to paste this information.…So, I can right-click again, and I have a series of paste options.…