Edit a Preview Chart in Excel
You can edit PowerPoint Web charts using Excel Web to change chart elements like the title, series, legend, and more in your presentation. In this article, we will guide you through the process of editing preview charts.
How to create and edit a preview chart
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In Excel, select the chart that you want to copy, and press Ctrl+C.
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Open PowerPoint, click where you want to paste the chart, and press Ctrl+V.
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Left click on the chart in PowerPoint.
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Select Edit in Excel.
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The preview chart will have an orange highlight and a title with the PowerPoint (.pptx) file name. Any changes made to this chart will be sent to PowerPoint automatically.
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Go back to your original PowerPoint file to view the changes.
To learn more about editing charts, see: Create a chart from start to finish
All changes to the preview chart will be saved to the original PowerPoint file. Remember to check that all changes have been saved back to your original PowerPoint file before closing Excel. The preview chart does not get saved to your Excel file
Anyone with access to your PowerPoint file and Excel file can make edits to your chart as well. To share access with another user, see: Share and collaborate with Excel for the web
You may notice some visual differences between PowerPoint and the Excel preview chart:
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Shapes can be placed on a chart from either PowerPoint Desktop or Excel Online. If you have added shapes to your chart and open the chart in Excel Online, you cannot see them on the PowerPoint chart. You will however still see these shapes on PowerPoint as they will not be overwritten. To continue editing the shapes, use PowerPoint desktop.
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When editing a preview chart, you may notice a difference in the colors shown between PowerPoint and Excel. This may be due to a difference in theme colors between the PowerPoint and Excel documents. To resolve this, you can change the theme colors of both documents (PowerPoint or Excel) to match one another, or change the color on the chart to a non-theme color.
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When editing a preview chart, you may notice a difference in the fonts shown between PowerPoint and Excel. This may be due to a difference in fonts between the PowerPoint and Excel documents. To resolve this, you can change the fonts of both documents (PowerPoint or Excel) to match one another.
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