Problems when pasting as link in Powerpoint

Hi Everybody,
Stumbled upon a rather curious little thing (bug?) when trying to pase a
chart as a link ( so that when the info the chart is based on changes, the
chart updates. This does not happen if i pase the chart in as a picture)

As can be seen here in the first screenshot, this is the Powerpoint template
i would like to paste to:

[URL="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7153/46666136.png"]http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7153/46666136.png[/URL]

When activating a text box in the Powerpoint presentation and select paste,
it fits the chart correctly in the text box- as can be seen below:

[URL="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7210/48603619.png"]http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7210/48603619.png[/URL]


The error (user or machine ) occurs here, i activate the text box like i
do when pasting normally - however this time i choose paste special and
"paste link" and as you can see below the chart goes all over the place and
does contain itself within the text box.

[URL="http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/751/12334559.png"]http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/751/12334559.png[/URL]

I have tried: different charts, different PC´s - this leads me to believe
that this is a general bug/feature in Office. Any advice or ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

First, thanks for the very clear description of the behavior.
I can repro this, even with the recently released SP2 applied.

I don't understand why linked content should be treated differently from
embedded, but it certainly is, at least in this case.

One workaround: our free PPTools StarterSet add-in has a handy set of tools
that let you pick up the size of any shape then apply that size/position to
other shapes. You could use it to pick up the size of the content placeholders
then nail the linked graphs to that same size (centered/undistorted if need
be).

[URL="http://www.pptools.com/starterset/"]http://www.pptools.com/starterset/[/URL]


In article , Amdrescher
wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> Stumbled upon a rather curious little thing (bug?) when trying to pase a
> chart as a link ( so that when the info the chart is based on changes, the
> chart updates. This does not happen if i pase the chart in as a picture)
>
> As can be seen here in the first screenshot, this is the Powerpoint template
> i would like to paste to:
>
> [URL="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7153/46666136.png"]http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7153/46666136.png[/URL]
>
> When activating a text box in the Powerpoint presentation and select paste,
> it fits the chart correctly in the text box- as can be seen below:
>
> [URL="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7210/48603619.png"]http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7210/48603619.png[/URL]
>
> The error (user or machine ) occurs here, i activate the text box like i
> do when pasting normally - however this time i choose paste special and
> "paste link" and as you can see below the chart goes all over the place and
> does contain itself within the text box.
>
> [URL="http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/751/12334559.png"]http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/751/12334559.png[/URL]
>
> I have tried: different charts, different PC´s - this leads me to believe
> that this is a general bug/feature in Office. Any advice or ideas would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.


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