pasting excel data in a powerpoint slide

Embedding an Excel worksheet into a PowerPoint slide and having it look
the way you want hasn't always been easy.

Here's what works best for me (although someone may have a better
procedure):

1.) In your slide, do the menu sequence Insert>Object.
2.) With "Create New" chosen on the left, pick "Microsoft Excel
Worksheet" from the list of Object Types and click OK.
3.) This puts a blank worksheet into your slide that you can actually
work on from within PowerPoint. (You'll notice that the menu and
toolbars at the top are now Excel menus and toolbars.)
4.) If you have already created your Excel worksheet in Excel, then
open Excel and open that worksheet (but keep the slide created in step
3 above open).
5.) Highlight the area of the Excel worksheet that you want embedded in
the slide.
6.) Do Copy (either Ctrl+C or Edit>Copy).
7.) Toggle back over to PowerPoint, click in the appropriate cell in
the embedded blank worksheet created in step 3 above and do paste. (Do
NOT click off that worksheet yet, however - keep it active).
8.) You can now size that embedded worksheet to increase or decrease
the number of visible rows and/or columns via the black handles.
9.) To increase or decrease the number of visible rows, use the black
handle at the bottom. To increase or decrease the number of visible
columns, use the black handle on the right. (The black handle at the
top can only be used to decrease rows, but not increase them.
Likewise, the black handle on the left can only be used to decrease
columns, not increase them.)
10.) Once you've gotten the number of rows and columns the way you
want, click off the worksheet (in other words, click in a blank area of
the slide).
11.) Your worksheet now becomes an object. If you click on it, white
handles will appear, and you can drag and drop it anywhere you want on
the screen.
12.) While in this object mode, you can resize it as an object but not
increase or decrease the number of visible rows or columns. (NOTE: to
resize it proportionally, use only the white handles in the corners.
Using the top or side handles will stretch or compress the object
disproportionally.)
13.) You may very well need to make it smaller if the number of rows
and/or columns will not fit on the page. Once you make it smaller (or
larger if you want, for that matter), get the object back to a
worksheet to increase or decrease the number of visible rows and/or
columns. Some trial and error with sizing the object using the white
handles before increasing or decreasing rows/columns may be called for.
14.) To get the object back to worksheet mode, right-click on it then
choose Worksheet Object>Edit from the dropdown menu.
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I hope this helps - let me know.

Paul

Just thought I'd better emphasize 2 points in the procedures I posted
above.

1.) The embedded Excel worksheet object can either have white handles
or black handles.
2.) To get white handles, SINGLE-click in the object. In this mode,
you can move or size the object but not increase or decrease the number
of rows or columns or edit the data.
3.) To get black handles, DOUBLE-click in the object (or right-click on
it then choose Worksheet Object>Edit from the dropdown menu). In this
mode, you can increase or decrease the number of rows or columns
(remember to use the handles at the bottom or right side only) or edit
the data but you cannot size the object. (You can, however, move it
but grabbing a non-handle part of the border and dragging the object.)