My title is probably very confusing, but it should make sense with the graphic below. Basically, I've created a chart in Excel showing some staffing data across months. The grey and gold lines are the budgets we're comparing against; the bars represent our actual staffing data. My Actuals data for May/June is blank (since those months haven't happened yet), so those bars should be blank. It looks totally fine in excel, but as soon as I paste it into Powerpoint, it looks like there are tiny blue bars in May/June.
I've identified that this problem only exists when pasting the chart as a picture. When I paste as a linked chart, it looks fine (no bars shown under May/June). Unfortunately we only paste in charts as pictures to ensure data doesn't get changed erroneously. This only happens for a few of my charts and I haven't been able to figure out what the root cause is!
Anyone have any ideas? If not, it's not the end of the world, but figured it doesn't hurt to ask
I've identified that this problem only exists when pasting the chart as a picture. When I paste as a linked chart, it looks fine (no bars shown under May/June). Unfortunately we only paste in charts as pictures to ensure data doesn't get changed erroneously. This only happens for a few of my charts and I haven't been able to figure out what the root cause is!
Anyone have any ideas? If not, it's not the end of the world, but figured it doesn't hurt to ask
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