Tips for Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Other Applications
Saving PowerPoint Content as Graphical Images
Why It Matters To You
So now you have a spiffy new table or chart in PowerPoint. Looks great, you're proud of yourself and now you realize you need to e-mail the table to someone. They just want your summary chart and don't want the full presentation. How do you get your table into a Word or Excel document or e-mail without losing the formatting?
How To ...
This article is the logical extension from the Inserting Excel Tables in PowerPoint and I'm going to use the same PowerPoint file for this exercise.
- excel-ppt_table.xls - my resulting PowerPoint table file
Open the sample file and go to the last page.
- Use the Select Objects point to draw a selection box around the entire table, backer box, and chart title you created in Inserting Excel Tables to PowerPoint.
- Right click on any of the gray bounding boxes and choose “Save Picture As” from the pop-up menu.
- Change the file type to “Enhanced Windows Metafile”.
- Name the graphic and save it to your desktop.
- Open a Word document and choose “Insert Picture: From File” from the “Insert” drop down menu to insert the graphic you just saved.
- Saving and inserting a chart object works in exactly the same way.
That's it.
Notes
| Last updated | 9/5/07 |
| Application Version | PowerPoint 2003 |
| Author | Michael Kan; original material written by Ronda Bey for Silver Oak Partners |
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Related Tips | None |