Pasting excel charts into word

[James]

We are having trouble pasting Excel charts in word under
XP. Under MS Office 2000, we would copy a chart and then
use paste.special to paste it as a picture. Under Office
XP we get fewer paste.special options and only have a
choice of picture (metafile enhanced) or Excel object.

The problem with the enhanced metafile picture is that it
can't be moved around and positioned like a picture in
Word, which makes document creation a nightmare.

If anyone can suggest what setup we have wrong in XP I
would be very grateful.

Regards,
James

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi James,

You should be able to
- right-click
- Format picture
- then apply any texwrap formatting you like

Are these commands not available?

Worst case scenario, copy the graph you pasted into Word,
then Paste Special again. But I think that Word limits you
to enhanced Metafile originally in order to make sure you
get optimal reproduction in the Word document.

We are having trouble pasting Excel charts in word under
XP. Under MS Office 2000, we would copy a chart and then
use paste.special to paste it as a picture. Under Office
XP we get fewer paste.special options and only have a
choice of picture (metafile enhanced) or Excel object.

The problem with the enhanced metafile picture is that it
can't be moved around and positioned like a picture in
Word, which makes document creation a nightmare.

If anyone can suggest what setup we have wrong in XP I
would be very grateful.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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