Excel to Powerpoint - copy and paste from clipboard

Objective:

  1. Copy a range of cell with formatting to clipboard. Currently can be done but going to edit and then copy pull down menu.

Problem:

  1. When I paste the contents of the clipboard in powerpoint it only shows the contents of the cells with the code below.

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
	copy range range "A1:N45" of the active sheet
end tell