Link Excel to other programs

[3 minutes total]

These three tutorials show how to link tables and charts made in Excel with word processing documents, PowerPoint presentations, and other types of files. As Excel data are updated or changed, reports or presentations that are linked to that data will automatically update themselves as well with the new changes.

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• Copying and pasting Excel tables to Word documents (0:44)
• Linking Excel tables to Word documents (1:12)
• Linking Excel charts to Word documents and readjusting the size (1:14)

Import data into Excel

[8 minutes total]

These three tutorials show how to import data into Excel from other databases. Outside data might come from student information systems, electronic gradebook software, data warehouses, or other administrative and instructional systems.

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• Importing comma delimited data into Excel (2:16)
• Importing tab delimited data into Excel (0:54)
• Importing fixed width data into Excel (4:26)

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