Hello, I'm trying to find a way to have a PowerPoint slide contain a linked Excel Worksheet that is housed on the cloud so that we (team of peers) no longer have to send the worksheet in tow with the presentation every time we email it. I accessed my O365 One Drive acct. which my company provides for all of us, and created the table and chart using the online Excel program. Sadly it won't let you use a copy/paste function to the PowerPoint file on my local drive so I can link it properly. The workaround seemed to be that I would tell Excel Online that i wanted to edit the worksheet using my local Excel program. It opens up my local program and then I can copy the chart and paste it (using paste special) into PowerPoint as a linked file. Then after closing the local Excel sheet it returns back to the Excel Online version. All seemed good.
I made a change to the Excel online chart to test it and it automatically updated the chart on my local drive. So far so good. I made another change and then closed my powerPoint and reopened it. It prompted me with the usual security warning and asked me if I wanted to update the links. After selecting "yes" it updated the slide to match with the online edit I had made.
So what's the problem? Well,..I tried this once more, and this time the update did not carry over. So it's inconsistent.
Is there any other way to do this or did I try the best approach?
I made a change to the Excel online chart to test it and it automatically updated the chart on my local drive. So far so good. I made another change and then closed my powerPoint and reopened it. It prompted me with the usual security warning and asked me if I wanted to update the links. After selecting "yes" it updated the slide to match with the online edit I had made.
So what's the problem? Well,..I tried this once more, and this time the update did not carry over. So it's inconsistent.
Is there any other way to do this or did I try the best approach?
