Re: Paste Picture from Scrapbook, Office 2004 for Mac

Hi Erik,

I tried to reproduce the problem on my Intel iMac, but was not successful.
Every copy I made was good. I did not see any unexpected white areas.

So let's be sure we're on the same page. Do you have the same version
installed that I do? I have all the updates. When I check the version of
Excel using the menu Excel > About Excel it says I am using version 11.3.6
(070618). If yours says something different then use the Help menu and check
for updates. If yours is the same, then maybe it's hardware related. What
computer and display do you have?

The functionality of Shift-Command-C was changed to use the clipboard. But
you can change keyboard shortcuts. Check the Excel help topic titled
Customize shortcut key assignments. Using the menus Shift-Edit-Copy Picture
is still available in Excel 2004, which is what you wanted with
Shift-Command-C.

-Jim




Quoting from "Erik" <ema@xxxxxxx>, in article
1187446528.596883.144750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, on [DATE:

I need to be able to paste complex figures I've created over the years
in Excel (charts showing data, plus custom legends and labels I
cobbled together) into Word documents, on a Mac. In v.X, the
following procedure worked fine: Mark an area, then Shift-Command-C,
then "As appears on screen", then Paste into the destination
document. I just moved to Office 2004 for Mac, and have figured out
that I now need to go through the Scrapbook. Fine. I now Mark an
area, Add the marked area to the Scrapbook, then Paste as Picture from
the Scrapbook into Word (or Powerpoint, or elsewhere in Excel; same
problem arises). The problem: with certain figures, generally those
that include two embedded charts side by side, a substantial region of
the picture comes out white, as if a white square had been overlaid on
it. Oddly, the blanked-out region seems to be limited to the right-
hand chart; other embedded objects on the right (my custom axis
labels, made of text boxes) so show up.

Example at http://www.msu.edu/~ema/scbug.xls. Open the document, open
the Scrapbook (if it isn't already), Add the marked area to the
Scrapbook, then Paste as Picture, say into that same Excel ***,
below the marked region. The result will be like what is on the
Finish page of the spread***.

I found a couple of instances of what looked like similar problems a
couple of years ago on these forums, but in one case it looked like a
page-size issue (which this doesn't seem to be), and in another case
there seemed to be no resolution.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Erik.


--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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