Excel chart embedded in powerpoint automatically resizes and distorts

Admittedly, this is more of a powerpoint question, but you folks in exceltip land are really really smart!

I've embedded an excel workbook in powerpoint in order to display a chart. Here's the problem:

Step1: i open the embedded excel workbook to modify the chart
Step2: after modifying, i close the embedded file to view the powerpoint slide again
Step3: After closing the excel chart, powerpoint automatically resizes and distorts the embedded chart image. I understand that i can go to Format --> Object --> Size to exactly repair the chart dimensions, however i shouldn't have to do that.

Does anyone know how to make powerpoint stop messing with my chart dimensions? I encounter the same problem sometimes with charts created in powerpoint as well.

Thanks for any tips/suggestions!

Refreshing this post... i still haven't found an answer to this problem. C'mon excel-ers of the world, unite!!

It's 2021 and I still have this issue. Has this really not been solved ?

Hi, you seem lonely so I thought I would reply to your post from 14 years ago. I am having the same problem with an Excel Object and read that it was a known problem with Office 2003. Is that what you are using?
A fix has been available which required a registry change... sadly it is no longer supported (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834009 ). It's disgraceful of Microsoft to remove archived support which costs nothing to leave online but that's what these nasty evil big companies do to make you spend more money.