

In Excel, select the cells you want to link or embed. Start by opening both the Excel worksheet and the PowerPoint presentation you want to edit at the same time. Linking or embedding an Excel worksheet into a PowerPoint presentation is actually pretty straightforward, and the process for doing either is almost identical.

How to Link or Embed an Excel Worksheet in Microsoft PowerPoint So, with all that in mind, let’s take a look at how to link and embed an Excel Sheet in Microsoft PowerPoint. There are some distinct advantages to embedding, though. For example, if you’re distributing that presentation to people who might not have access to the original Excel sheet, or if the presentation needs to show that Excel sheet at a specific point in time (rather than getting updated), embedding (and breaking the connection to the original sheet) makes more sense. And since it relies on the link to the original spreadsheet, it’s not so useful if you need to distribute the presentation to people who don’t have access to that location.Įmbedding that data, on the other hand, increases the size of presentation, because all that Excel data is actually embedded into the PowerPoint file.

If it doesn’t, you’ll have to link it again. One disadvantage is that the original spreadsheet file needs to stay in the same location. There are advantages to both methods, of course. One advantage of linking a document (other than maintaining the connection) is that it keeps your PowerPoint presentation’s file size down, because the data is mostly still stored in the Excel sheet and only displayed in PowerPoint. Updating the original Excel sheet does not automatically update the data in the target presentation.

