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Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2007: Getting Started With PowerPoint With Lots of Tips and Tricks Lesson 3: Integrating PowerPoint with Excel and Word

In Lesson 3, you will learn the difference between embedded and linked objects and how to integrate PowerPoint with Excel and Word to create and edit embedded and linked objects.

You will learn how to copy worksheet data and charts created and stored in an Excel workbook and paste the copied data or charts on slides in a PowerPoint presentation.


Next, you will learn how to publish presentation handouts to Word and how to insert new slides in a presentation based on a Word text outline. To wrap up the lesson, you learn how to insert slide numbers in a footer on one slide or all slides in a presentation. You also learn how to save a presentation as a PowerPoint Show that automatically opens in Slide Show view.

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Objectives

  1. describe Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
  2. use the Copy and Paste Special commands to embed and link data
  3. publish presentation handouts to Word
  4. insert new slides from a Word outline

Key Terms

linked object

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)

Paste Special command

Paste Special dialog box

PowerPoint Show

Send to Microsoft Office Word dialog box

Slides from Outline command

Copy command button

Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word command

embedded object

Header and Footer dialog box

heading style

Insert Object command button

Insert Outline dialog box

Insert Slide Number command button