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Sometimes, after making changes to the linked data or chart in Excel, you need to manually update the link in the PowerPoint presentation slide to ensure that your presentation has the latest-and-greatest version of the Excel data. To manually update a linked table of Excel spreadsheet data or a linked chart, go to the slide in question, right-click the table or chart, and then choose Update Link from its shortcut menu.
Figure 4-9 illustrates how easy it is to edit the table of sales data that is embedded in a PowerPoint 2013 slide. To edit the table from in PowerPoint, all I have to do is double-click the table on the slide. The PowerPoint Ribbon then adds a Chart Tools contextual tab to its Ribbon. After I double-click the embedded table, the PowerPoint Ribbon then adds the Excel tabs so that I can use its command buttons to make all my editing changes.
Figure 4-9:
Editing the embedded Excel sales table in its PowerPoint slide.
Exporting Workbooks to Other Usable File Formats
Sometimes you may need to share worksheet data with co-workers and cli- ents who do not have Excel installed on their computers. Therefore, they can’t open up and print Excel workbook files saved either in the default XML file format (with the .xlsx filename extension) favored by Excel 2007 and
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Sharing Workbooks and Worksheet Data