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Asked: 2026-06-18T09:41:01+00:00

I have some Excel tables that I need to show on a Powerpoint slide,

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I have some Excel tables that I need to show on a Powerpoint slide, and need them to automatically update if the spreadsheet has been updated.

I can paste them normally, and they look great and I can change column widths, font sizes etc. But the data is static and doesn’t update automatically.

Or I can ‘Paste Link’, which does update automatically, but it looks awful – the text is either squashed or stretched, and if I move the borders it’s like stretching a bitmap rather than making more room for the data in the table.

So is there a way of getting the table into Powerpoint, being able to format it well, and also have it updated automatically? I can venture into VBA but this should be possible without code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you paste as a microsoft chart object it will look a little better. Also, I’ve adopted the practice of making a separate tab for my presentation items and adjust the cells there in the excel application instead of in powerpoint. That way they will stay the same size even when you update your references.

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