Insert a blank Excel Worksheet onto a PowerPoint Slide

 

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You can have a blank Excel worksheet appear on your slide. The cells of the worksheet will then be available to type into. To try it for yourself, insert a blank slide from the PowerPoint menu bar. Click Insert > Object again. The dialogue box will look like this:

From the Object type list, select Microsoft Excel Worksheet. Then click OK. Your slide will look like the one in the image below:

This is an Excel Worksheet embedded into the slide. The image above shows that cell A1 is selected. In the Image below, we've entered some data:

You can even create an Excel chart, once you've entered your data. Click Insert from the PowerPoint menu bar, and you'll see a Chart option. Click the other menus and you'll see a lot of them now have the same options that you find in Excel.

In the image below, we've created an Excel chart from our simple data:

If you're familiar with Excel, have a play around with the menu option. You can do quite a lot from PowerPoint that you can do in Excel itself!

 

Insert a Ready-Made Excel Chart

The third Excel option is really just a variation of the above. This time, however, you get a default chart and a worksheet already prepared.

Insert another blank slide, and click Insert > Object again. From the dialogue box, select Microsoft Excel Chart from the list:

Click OK, and your slide will look like this:

As you can see, a chart is already prepared. But you can change this. Click on Sheet1 at the bottom to see the data:

You can enter your own data here, and the chart will update automatically.

By embedding an Excel Chart into PowerPoint, you can give your presentations a more sophisticated look - it might even impress the boss!

In the next section, we'll take a look at adding video and sound to your presentations.

 

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