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Inserting Excel tables

Inserting Excel tables

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Inserting Excel tables

- While the ability to create tables directly in PowerPoint is great, why reinvent the wheel? When most of the time, you'll probably be pulling data you already have in an Excel file. I'm going to create a new slide. I'll make it Title Only. I'll add my title. Now let's go into our Assets folder. In the Assets folder, there is an Excel file called Average Stay Data, it contains some cells filled with data, I'll click and drag to highlight those cells, right click, and choose Copy. I'll come back to my presentation, right click, and here I have some Paste Options. I can paste using Destination Styles, which will give me the ability to edit this like a PowerPoint table, however the color scheme and fonts will be that of the PowerPoint theme. I can choose to keep the Source Formatting, which will again make my table editable in Powerpoint and will keep the Source Formatting the way it looked in Excel. I can Embed the Excel file. This will leave a copy of it in my PowerPoint file so that…

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