Working with Other Programs: Link to Excel Cells and Ranges in PowerPoint

Created: Thursday, February 22, 2018, posted by Geetesh at 9:18 pm

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Do you want to link to an Excel file from within PowerPoint? You can then use the typical hyperlink technique. However, click on the link, and you will end up opening your Excel file at the last saved location. What if you always wanted your link to access a particular cell or a range of cells in Excel? This is possible, but you will rarely find this secret option documented at all!

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Link to Excel Cells and Ranges in PowerPoint 365

Link to Excel Cells and Ranges in PowerPoint 2013

Link to Excel Cells and Ranges from PowerPoint

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