If you’ve created a chart in Numbers, you can copy it and paste it into your Keynote presentation. After it’s been pasted into Keynote, the chart remains linked to the data tables it references in Numbers. To change the chart data, open the original Numbers document and edit the data there, save the Numbers document, and then refresh the chart data in Keynote.

To update a chart after you’ve updated its data in its linked Numbers table:

Select the chart on the slide canvas and click the Refresh button that appears.

Note:  You must save the Numbers document before copying and pasting your chart into your Keynote presentation and after editing the Numbers data tables that the chart references.
To unlink the chart from the Numbers tables:

Select the chart on the slide canvas and click Unlink.

After unlinking the chart, it behaves as any chart created in Keynote, and must be updated using the Chart Data Editor.

Clicking the Source link next to the Refresh button opens the Numbers document that the chart is linked to. (If the Source link is hidden, expand the Refresh button control panel by dragging its handle outward.)

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