Charts: paste special, as pdf and in-line

[scottjn]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello. Anytime I need to paste chart from Excel '08 into Word '08 I need to use the Paste Special/as PDF and then right click and chose Text Wrapping, In-line with text. If I just paste the chart with cmd-V the formatting looks terrible. Does anyone have an applescript to automate the Paste special/as PDF/Text Wrapping:In-line with text? I'd be very grateful as I have no applescript skills. Thanks!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hello. Anytime I need to paste chart from Excel '08 into Word '08 I need
to use the Paste Special/as PDF and then right click and chose Text
Wrapping, In-line with text. If I just paste the chart with cmd-V the
formatting looks terrible.

I've had the same problem and reported it lately. Since I suspect that
this is a bug, you should use the Send Feedback command in Excel or Word
to let MS know,

Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Scott -

Can you be more definitive with regard to "looks terrible"?

I'm in no way discounting what you're observing, but any that I've done seem
to have no problem. I'd like to know more about the anomalies as well as
whether these happen to be .doc or .docx files you're pasting into.

Any additional specific details would be most helpful.

Thanks

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[scottjn]

Hi Bob,

By "looks terrible" sometimes some of the fonts are substituted with other fonts. Also, not everything gets resized properly. I realize now part of this problem is I'm trying to copy a chart that is wider than my Word page so the chart itself gets shrunk but the text on the chart does not and it doesn't look good (at least not the same as it does in Excel). This why I like to paste it as a pdf, that way everything gets resized proportionately. It's just a pain going through all the keystrokes/mouse clicks to do it.

I see this for both .doc and .docx.

Thanks! Scott.