How can I import data from various spreadsheets to Powerpoint?

[Jan Buckley]

I have Powerpoint slides that use information residing in various Excel
spreadsheets on the same shared drive. How can I link the data from the
speadsheets to the slides so I don't have to manually enter the data each
time? Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[John Wilson]

If you insert the excel files as objects > browse from file and tick "link"
every time you open powerpoint it will ask if you want to update
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[Jan Buckley]

I'm not importing all the data on the spreadsheets, just date from certain
cells. I need to be able to create several powerpoint slides that contain the
same data as resides in these particular cells in Excel.

 

[John Wilson]

Jan

I've never used this but it looks like what you need
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/merge/index.html
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[Jan Buckley]

This certainly looks like it would work. Unfortunately, I'd have to purchase
the software and that's not an option. What if I created another spreadsheet
in Excel and linked all the data to it, then imported that spreadsheet into
PowerPoint? I think I'll try that, but thanks anyway for your efforts.