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(David Gainer) One thing we know is that many of the charts that folks created in Excel end up in PowerPoint presentations or Word documents (I think the statistic is that 50% of all charts in PowerPoint presentations originate from Excel. While users work in Excel to analyze their data, the final results are often given to others, and they rarely want to include all the intermediate steps from Excel. Furthermore, users have all kinds of solutions to transfer their charts. Most just use copy and paste, but some use Excels copy as picture command, or write VBA solutions, to update their charts in various ways. In Office 2007, our goal was to make copying and pasting charts into PowerPoint and Word as easy as possible. We also wanted the resulting charts to be as easy to use in PowerPoint and Word as they are in Excel, and we wanted to address a lot of problematic behaviours that existed in current versions of Office when you moved charts from Excel to PowerPoint one way or another. Today I am going to briefly review the work that we did in this area. |
