From the course: Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint (365/2019)

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Link and embed data and objects

Link and embed data and objects

From the course: Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint (365/2019)

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Link and embed data and objects

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- [Instructor] When I copy data from Excel and paste it in PowerPoint, PowerPoint gives me even more options for how I want to place the content from the clipboard in to my presentation. So I have selected this set of data. Right click copy. I could also Control + C and I'm going to go to my presentation. I have a blank slide here. And when I click paste, I had access to these five options, but I also have an option called Paste Special. Let's start however, with embed. Embed is part of a technology called OLE, which stands for Object Linking and Embedding. And this is the embedding part, if I choose to embed, what I get is a copy of the data that I selected. If I double click, then this object knows it's Excel. It fires up the Excel ribbon for me and allows me to edit it. So when I embed Excel content, the pros are making a copy of the selected data, the copy is editable, I can manipulate it in any way I…

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