When you copy text from a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet and
then paste the text into a Microsoft Office PowerPoint slide, the text formatting may
unexpectedly disappear.
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This behavior may occur when you copy only the text in a
cell, or when you copy a text box or other AutoShape that is embedded in an
Excel worksheet. The context of the text is retained, but the formatting is
changed to the default text in PowerPoint.
Note When you copy a cell from Excel, the text in the cell retains the
Excel font formatting.
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To copy text from Excel, to paste it into PowerPoint, and to
retain the formatting, do the following:
| 1. | In Excel, select the data or chart that you want to
copy. |
| 2. | Right-click and select Copy. |
| 3. | Switch to PowerPoint. |
| 4. | On the Edit menu, click Paste
Special. |
| 5. | Click Formatted Text (RTF). |
Note For a graphic or for text that has an AutoShape embedded in the
cell, paste as a Picture or as a
Bitmap.
You can also retain the item's original
formatting by using the smart tag that appears under the item that you pasted.
To retain the item's original formatting, click
Keep Source
Formatting.
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Some text formatting options, such as strikethrough, are not
available in PowerPoint and will be lost.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
285506 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285506/)
Special text formatting is lost when a Word document is pasted in PowerPoint2002 or in PowerPoint 2003
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