mpp out of ppt

[Jamie Y]

is it possible to edit an embedded gantt chart from mpp that has been put
into ppt? i guess if it's a gif we're stuck... but it keeps coming up within
ppt edit as an .xls for some reason...

 

[Echo S]

is it possible to edit an embedded gantt chart from mpp that has been
put into ppt? i guess if it's a gif we're stuck... but it keeps
coming up within ppt edit as an .xls for some reason...

Are you sure it's a Gantt chart from Project?

What do you mean "coming up within ppt edit"? What exactly are you doing to
try to open/edit the file?

 

[Jamie Y]

when you doubleclick on the chart page within the powerpoint, it doesn't come
up in projet (even though i have project installed) it comes up in excel as a
spreadsheet!

 

[Echo S]

In that case it was probably created in Excel, which means you should
probably edit it in the Excel spreadsheet that's embedded in the PPT slide.
(I've seen Gantt charts done in Excel before; it's not _that_ unusual.)

If you want to try to go from Excel into Project, see Extracting Excel
content from PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00670.htm for getting the Excel
spreadsheet out of PPT to begin.