Datamapping to Excel

[mel.turco]

PPT 2003

Need some help. I'm trying to datamap to Excel. On a slide I want to
show the live contents (linked) of a single cell from an Excel file.
On the slide I will have several such objects. I tried copying a cell
and pasting as a link into the slide. It worked fine except the visual
quality was bad. Being Excel used 10pt, contents appeared too small on
the slide, and the edges of the characters were jagged in Slide Show.
I enlarged the linked object and it looked fine, but in Slide Show, it
was so jagged it was unacceptable. Is this the only way to do this?

I'm not a stranger to PPT and will even take VBA suggestions. I'm very
familiar with PPT and even used to program VBA with it, but it's been
a long long time. I've been wrapped up in Excel VBA projects for a few
years now and have forgotten a lot. Thanks.

 

[Mel]

I need to clarify the jagged edges appear only when the linked object
is animated. I can animate other textual objects without that
happening. Do linked objects that display text run under a different
set of rules?

 

[Mel]

Nope - scratch that. NOW all linked text is appearing jagged -
animated or not - when a moment ago it was only the animated linked
text that was jagginating. Note that animated non-linked text does not
jagginate - only linked text from Excel.

I know about some history of jagged edges issues, but I've never seen
it happen on only linked text. Anyone know what's going on?

 

[Mel]

STEVE! ... Brilliant idea, man! <big kiss headed your way>

Lemme see how that works.

Thanks
Mel

If that munges your worksheet formatting, you could probably leave the original
cell alone, copy/link it to another cell on a different sheet, format that then
copy/paste/link it to PPT.

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