Send Graphs to PowerPoint improvement

Owned by Yiming Chen
Last updated: Nov 07, 2017 by Wall-E
1 min read

ORG-12861

Easier to Send Graphs to PPT with consistent style with no need to set Slide Master in PPT
  1. Allow choosing which graphs to insert and in what order by set Select Graph(s) to be Specified – in the past, you can only change slide order with Slide column in Project Explorer.
  2. Allow insert multiple graphs to an existing PPT or PPT template file from a specified start slide. Each graph can be added as a new slide with same style and layout as start slide (Slide Mode: Start New) or choosing Overlay Existing to put each graph to existing slide.
  3. Send graphs to an opened PPT file or PPT template

How to:

  1. Open Column_Plots_in_Sample_OPJ.PPTX under Origin exe\samples\import and export\. U can see it's a blank PPTX file with layout, style, footer, logo set on Slide 3.
  2. In Origin, choose File: Open Sample Projects: 2D and Contour Graphs.opj.
  3. Select Column, Bar folder in PE and click Send Graphs to Powerpoint button.
  4. Set Select Graph(s) to be All in Active Folder (Recursive)
  5. Set Start Slide Index: 3. Slide Mode: Start New. Click ... button next to Load File/Template(Optional) and pick Column_Plots_in_Sample_OPJ.PPTX under Origin exe\samples\import and export\.
  6. Click OK
  7. All graphs under Column,Bar folder will be send to Column_Plots_in_Sample_OPJ.PPTX file starting from 3rd slide on. Also they will use same background, logo, page index of Slide 3.Other slides before 3 and at the end are still kept.