Some excel columns won't retain width after being copied into Powerpoint

Hi everyone,

I am having a very troubling problem. In excel I specify the column widths, however when I copy and paste the table into Powerpoint, 2 of my columns no matter how I try, will not display the correct column width.

As you can see in the picture in excel, it displays the column width correctly, in columns C and E the width is very small ( I set both of them to width = 0.15 )

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However, once I copy and paste into powerpoint, columns C and E become 0.5 in size (or bigger)

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Help! why is excel doing this??

Jason

Well, first off, it's not excel that's doing it, it's powerpoint.

Are you copy/pasting the excel cells into a ppt table, or are you clicking insert > table > excel spreadsheet?

The latter will preserve excel formatting, the former won't.