Output of Plotly in PowerPoint

Question

Is it possible to use an interactive graph created with Python package Plotly in PowerPoint? Is it possible to insert a plotly output in a slide?

Answer 1

To my knowledge and experience, if you want to show the interactive image within PPT, my current answer is no. Because previously I tried to do the same thing for Plotly or Bokeh figures. I looked around and in the end, I saw somebody answered on a Microsoft discussion page, the answer was NO.

But one thing that works is that you can input your figure (html file) as a hyperlink within the ppt. Then when you click it, it opens on your browser, you can still interact with it, although it is not in ppt!

If you are making a presentation via online platforms like Zoom, you can just switch the screen that you are sharing.

Answer 2

There used to be a PowerPoint add-in that made it possible to integrate interactive charts published on plotly Chart Studio into the presentation. Unfortunately, this add-in is no longer available.

EDIT: I found a workaround to get interactiv plotly charts into my PowerPoint Slides

How to:

1. Create a Plotly chart studio account
2. Publish your chart on chart studio like described here
3. Open PowerPoint and install the Add-In "Webviewer"
4. Insert the public URL of yout chart from Plotly chart studio

Disadvantage: It only works if the plug-in is installed and Internet access is available.