How to Insert a MS Word Table into MS PowerPoint Slide

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I love copying and pasting as much as the copy-paster next door 🙂

But sometimes the results are, well… let’s say, “less than acceptable.”

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Problem

For example, when you’re trying to insert a MS Word table into a MS PowerPoint slide, the good’old copy-and-paste trick just won’t work.

Here is our Word table:

MS Word 2007 Table 1

Select the whole table and then copy it by pressing Ctrl + C.

Then create a new slide inside MS PowerPoint and paste your table. This is what you’ll get:

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MS Word 2007 Table 2
Ugh!

Solution

BEFORE pasting your table, go to the HOME tab on your PowerPoint ribbon.
Select Paste > Paste Special to display the Paste Special dialog box:
MS Word 2007 Table 3
Select Microsoft Office Word Document Object and click OK.
Now you’ll see your great table intact in your PPT slide:
MS Word 2007 Table 4

2 Comments

  1. d on March 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    Excellent. thank you, that worked. I was able to work on the content for a scientific poster with this information.



  2. Vv on November 15, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Thanks!! Lifesaver!!