Pasting Charts in Word and PowerPoint

When you paste Excel charts into Word or PowerPoint you may also be pasting all the underlying data that created the chart.

To get around that problem, you can use the Copy as Picture option.

This option is on a drop down on the Copy button on the Home ribbon – see image below.

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You have a few options to choose from on what and how to copy.

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This treats the chart as a graphic, which breaks any links to the underlying data. It also makes it much easier to re-size the chart when you paste it in the destination document.

It is not dynamic at all – it is a point in time capture.


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