Design Corner: Presenting with Embedded Objects

PowerPoint becomes a natural place to combine the best results of your efforts in Word and Excel to create an effective presentation. You can use the Clipboard and OLE tools to reuse existing Word and Excel content as well as to create new slide elements through embedded Word and Excel objects. This saves both time and effort and assures consistency throughout your Office documents.

For example, using the techniques described in “Working with Embedded Office Objects,” you can embed an Excel chart in your PowerPoint presentation. To the presentation audience, the tools used to build the chart are invisible, but to the presenter, having an entire Excel worksheet available through a simple double-click ...

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