It's imperfect but much more convenient for my requirements than fudging tab stops or indents, inserting spaces or whatnot.ġ. I stumbled upon a work around that meets my needs. It's the vertical decimal alignment that gets messed up on account of negative numbers. The number formatting is preserved during the conversion. users with screen readers).Īll the tables I work with in PowerPoint were copy/pasted from Excel files actually.

Plus real tables are preferred at my company out of accessibility concerns (e.g. Slide is easier if I need to move other elements around, I can resize the table freely without distorting it because it's not an image. Well with screenshots (or paste as image), I lose a lot of other formatting control that I get with Powerpoint and Word tables such as line spacing, character spacing, certain fonts, and more precise control over cell margins. But there are other variations: Use Paste Special & select either HTML or formatted Text (RTF). The result is an editable matrix, not really a picture nor an Excel object. Both programs use the same basic Table generator but Excel provides number formatting option not available in PPT.Ĭreate & format a range in Excel, then copy/paste to the slide. Why not? I can appreciate wanting to avoid both but they are not the only alternatives. I'd rather work with proper PowerPoint tables. Ideally I don't want to have to insert screenshots of Excel tables or embed Excel tables.