File Too Large?

[John Gregory]

I made a few charts in Excel then copied them to a WORD 2000 document and
sent them to a distribution list. Everything went fine. Today - with several
more charts added - I attempted the same. Problem! I got a message telling
me that MY server claims the file is too long.

Is there a way to copy that image to a WORD document so it doesn't take up
so much code?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi John,

I made a few charts in Excel then copied them to a WORD 2000 document and
sent them to a distribution list. Everything went fine. Today - with several
more charts added - I attempted the same. Problem! I got a message telling
me that MY server claims the file is too long.

Is there a way to copy that image to a WORD document so it doesn't take up
so much code?

Try
- In Excel, hold Shift, click the "Edit" menu, and choose "Copy Picture"
- In Word, Edit/Paste Special and make sure it's pasting as a picture

If you just copy/paste a chart in Office 2000, by default Word will paste the
chart as an OLE object. This means that the Word document also has to contain
portions of the entire Excel workbook (the worksheets containing the chart
data) and some other "heavy" things.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[John Gregory]

Thanks, Cindy. I stumbled upon that this morning and made two test copies
and compared the file sizes. Big difference. Big BIG difference. And I don't
need that link to Excel. I just want a snapshot.

Thanks again.