Pasting pictures between Excel 2004 and Powerpoint 2008

[NASA_Steve]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I try to copy a text box in Excel 2004 into Powerpoint 2008 as a picture, the box appears blank. If I paste it as a Microsoft Drawing object, the text turns from 10 point to 24 point. If I paste it into Powerpoint 2004 and reopen it in 2008, I get the same blank box. Help!! I am using Visual Basic to create the chart, so using Excel 2008 is not really an option. Thanks!

 

[Laroche J]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I try to copy a text box in Excel 2004 into Powerpoint 2008 as a picture,
the box appears blank. If I paste it as a Microsoft Drawing object, the text
turns from 10 point to 24 point. If I paste it into Powerpoint 2004 and reopen
it in 2008, I get the same blank box. Help!! I am using Visual Basic to create
the chart, so using Excel 2008 is not really an option. Thanks!

I don't know if I understand your requirement correctly, but could you use
OS X's screen capture to do it?

If you press simultaneously Shift-Control-Command-4, the cursor will change
into a target. Frame the area you want an image of with a drag-click, and
when you let go of the mouse button the area will be copied to the
clipboard. Then simply paste in PowerPoint.

JL
Mac OS X 10.4.11, Office v.X 10.1.9

 

[NASA_Steve]

The problem is scriptability... I am using Applescript to do the copy/paste. Don't know how I would be able to automate the location of a screen capture.

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

The problem is scriptability... I am using Applescript to do the copy/paste.
Don't know how I would be able to automate the location of a screen capture.

First, I don't know if a screen capture is automatable. But you should
easily be able to get the top, left, width and height of the text box.

 

[NASA_Steve]

The basic issue here is that text boxes created in Excel 2004 can not be pasted into Powerpoint 2008 (or Word 2008) without significant changes to the font size or losing the text information altogether. This really isn't acceptable. Slides made long ago using this process show up with blank text boxes in Powerpoint 2007 or 2008, so the problem is not with the copy/paste process. It is pretty easy to reproduce. Has anyone else run into this?