Using Visual Basic for Applications you can insert Excel charts into a new PowerPoint presentation programmatically rather than using the cumbersome copy-and-paste method.

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

Kalyan S. Pasupathy, Alexandra Medina-Borja, Integrating Excel, Access, and Visual Basic to Deploy Performance Measurement and Evaluation at the American Red Cross, Interfaces, Vol. 38, No. 4, The Use ...