How can I export Chart/Table report results to PowerPoint?

[Former Member]

The resulting charts from my Crystal reports eventually need to end up in PowerPoint presentations. I don't believe ppt files are an available export format option. I can export to PDF, highlight the graph and copy/paste to PowerPoint, but this is not a solution I can deliver to the execs.

I have been evaluating Xcelsius as it has the export to PowerPoint functionality. Unfortunately, I do not see an obvious way to export crystal report results from it. I can run a CR via a URL and "opendocument" , but the results are displayed outside of the context of Xcelsius...

Any suggestions or potential solutions to try would be greatly apprecicated.

[former_member260594 · Accepted solution]

Rob,

You could use Live Office and select report objects to insert the chart into PPT.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have started looking at using live office as a solution. I am not familiar with live office or what the end user interface might look like. I'll search the forums for some help.

Thanks again,

Rob

[Former Member]

Yes, I agree - thank you. My chart doesn't export to Excel very pretty, so I will look at exporting to PDF and I'll look at some of the PDF to PPT conversion utilities available. I figure if I can call things through the command shell, I should be able to end up with the report opened in PowerPoint. I'll update this thread with any findings I make.

Rob

[Former Member]

You can try exporting to excel and embedding that into a Power Point presentation. Since there is no inherant way to get to a PPT file from Crystal Reports we are most likely going to have to go through a format in the middle.