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Inserting your Excel Tables

The first button on the Table Format toolbar lets you quickly paste your tables into PowerPoint (from Excel).

You can also copy the exact number of cells and paste as values over an existing table.

 Paste Excel Table - Pastes a table from the clipboard that has been copied from Excel.

There are two ways you can insert your Excel tables into PowerPoint:

1) Pasting them on top of a table placeholder (replacing the placeholder).

2) Pasting the copied table directly on to the slide.

3) Pasting the values directly over an existing table.

1) Using a Table Placeholder

If you select a table placeholder and you have a table copied from Excel (on the clipboard) the existing table placeholder will be replaced.

Select the table placeholder and press the Insert Excel Table button.

If you select an existing table object and you have a table copied from Excel (on the clipboard) the existing table will be replaced.

2) Inserting a Table directly

If you have an existing slide you can use the Options drop-down list to insert a chart directly onto a slide.

Select "Slide - Table" from the placeholder drop-down box to reposition and resize the table correctly.

3) Pasting over an existing table

If you have an existing table you can paste the data as values directly over the table.

This will maintain all the table formatting and is a very quick way to update existing data.