➤ How to link an Excel table or chart with Power Point 🎮

As we have pointed out, linking between Office documents is very convenient, for example linking or linking Excel with Word is something you should know, as it is usually essential when working in office automation, on the other hand, learning to link your Excel table with Power Point, read the following information.

How to link an Excel table or chart with Power Point

The link between different documents, be they documents Excel, Word o Power point it can be very convenient for different situations, as we have pointed out earlier. Many people don't do this because they think it's a complicated process but it's not.

In fact, linking an Excel table or chart in PowerPoint is much simpler than you might think. The above, added to the assignment of a recorded macro to a command button in Excel, are processes that can automate the work on the working platform.

Connect a simple table

There are several ways to connect Excel documents, this time we will show you the simplest that exists. However, remember that this method will be useful essentially for not very complex tables. Without further ado, follow these steps to learn the process:

The first step is to determine the Excel content you want to link to PowerPoint. For this reason, remember where you previously saved the file.
To make linking as easy as possible, open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the tab Inserisci.
Once you are inside the insert, you need to locate the option Subject.
Press on the object, once you click on this option a new screen will appear. Here it is important to select the option Create from file and then click Browse ....
When you click on the option Browse ... the file search screen will jump, now all that remains is to locate the document in Excel format and click open, press accept and wait for the screen to refresh.
As you will see, the contents of your Excel document will appear inside the PowerPoint slide.

Linking Excel and PowerPoint for more complex tables

The above procedure works great for simple tables, but can be tricky when there is a lot of content within the document. For this reason there is also a slightly more advanced option for these circumstances.

Follow the process steps above as they will be needed to create the link between the table Excel and the slides of Power point.
In any case, select the dynamic object (i.e. the table) and remove it from the slide. Don't worry, we will retrieve this information and you can organize it in a better way.

Suppose you have a small table and a chart inside a document, you will have noticed that when you make the simple link both objects appear in a messy way. In relation to the above, it is also recommended to make a chart in Excel by taking data from multiple sheets and it is valid for the connection between Excel and Power Point, connection that you can make by following these steps:

Copy the Excel table you need and go to PowerPoint, there go to the Home tab and then up Paste.
In Paste, look for the option Paste special, within the option Paste the link will appear, select Microsoft Excel spreadsheet object and click OK.
As you will see, the selected content will have been copied successfully.
In the case of having multiple objects in an Excel table, repeat the procedure, we recommend that you paste each object on different slides, no matter if they are graphs or tables, the process works for all types of documents.

The above tutorial is good for linking Excel documents correctly, creating creative and professionally designed PowerPoint slides. By creating this link, anything you update in Excel will automatically appear reflected in PowerPoint. This process can be very convenient when making presentations at work or college.