Using PowerPoint to present Excel data

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I'm a qualitative market researcher, and use PowerPoint for all my presentations. But we're starting to run small-scale quantitative research surveys for our clients.

Data comes back to us in the form of Excel spreadsheets, and I need to work out how best to present this information to clients.

I know that you can do charts in PowerPoint, but it seems very laborious to me - and I realise that I just don't know how to do it efficiently. There's got to be a quicker way than just inputting data manually!

Can anyone here either help me or recommend someone who can do some training for me?

We'll pay for training - don't expect someone to do this for free!

BTW - we're based in South West London

Can you not just cope and paste the relevant bits from Excel? ie get the spreadsheet to look how you'd want then jst copy it over? does that not work?

chart it in excel and then insert the chart as an object into the powerpoint slide.

So did it work?