powerpoint, Charts change going from PPT 2007 to PPT 2008 + keep source formatting?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Two issues that I'm hoping to get some help with... <br><br>The first: <br>
Some of my charts display differently on the Mac than they do the PC. I can build a deck using PowerPoint 2007 on Windows, with charts built in Excel 2007 and pasted in preserving their source formatting. When I view the same deck on my Mac in PowerPoint 2008 some charts have "jumped." In particular, the plot areas of combination line/column charts with several lengthy text-labels along the x-axis seem to be wider than on the PC. It doesn't happen every time, and there does not appear to be a correlation between the number of labels along the x-axis. This wouldn't be quite so annoying if it didn't also put the plot area "behind" the legend (and render some overlaid shapes totally useless as they're now out of their proper alignment). If I copy this exact same file back the PC again, these same charts look just fine when viewed in PowerPoint 2007. I suspect it might be a difference in how the font for the labels is handled by the Mac, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions? Oddly enough, my client's shop is all Mac so this really matters. <br><br>The second issue came out while trying to sort out the first: how do you "keep source formatting" on a pasted chart in PowerPoint 2008? When I paste an Excel 2007 chart into PowerPoint 2007, I always have that little clipboard menu appear to the lower right of the pasted chart. I can then select "keep source formatting" so that the chart doesn't use the default template format. In the course of trying to sort out the first problem, I noticed there is no little clipboard menu appearing in PowerPoint 2008, even though I'm using the same template. How does one "keep source formatting" in this case? <br><br>Thank you so much for any help! <br><br>- A.

Hi Jim, <br><br>Thank you for getting back to me! All charts in this case were built in Excel and then pasted into PowerPoint. <br><br>On the first issue, I believe it's a font rendering discrepancy between PC and Macs. The charts used Calibri, which the Microsoft sites suggest is available in both PPT 07 and PPT 08, but I suspect may not render the same for whatever arcane OS-level reason. I edited the charts to add additional line-breaks within the cell so that there were no more than one or two words per line, and changed the font to Verdana instead of Calibri. Those revised charts look alright in both PPT 2007 and 2008. <br><br>The second question used the same pipeline: charts built in Excel and then copied/pasted into PowerPoint. When I do this on the PC in Office 2007, the chart defaults to the PPT template but I always see the clipboard-menu that lets me select "keep source formatting." When I try these same steps on my Mac, I paste an Excel chart into PowerPoint but I don't get the clipboard-menu. I also can't seem to find any options in the toolbox/panel that lets me achieve the same result. I'm stuck with the chart having defaulted to the PPT template's default palette. <br><br>I don't think there's another work-around for the first issue, but I can tell my chart-team to use Verdana instead from here on out. Is there any place in PowerPoint 2008 where I can find "keep source formatting" as an option for charts I paste in from Excel 2008? <br><br>Thanks! <br><br>- A.