Sending Data to PowerPoint
You may wonder why you would want to send data to PowerPoint. If you say that you can place charts in PowerPoint, someone may argue that Excel charts do very well in PowerPoint. In fact, some may argue that Microsoft provides its own charting object to build charts in presentations. Why then would you place a Visio diagram in a PowerPoint presentation? Certain types of charts, most especially graphical symbol charts akin to those you see in USA Today, are not available within Excel or the Microsoft Graph applet. Visio does a brilliant job of creating these chart types and furthermore these chart types can be linked to external data sources such that the data in the external source controls the charting objects in Visio. ...
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