Bug Report - Word/Excel

[mjs975s]

On Mac
-----------
Construct linear plot in Excel including:
1. Title
2. X-axis label
3. Y-axis label

Copy and Paste into Word

Save and send to PC


On PC
----------
Open file in Word

Notice Y-axis label is gone


I'm a Biochemistry student who uses Excel to do lots of number
crunching. I use a 1.25G Powerbook G4 with OS X 10.4.3 and the newest
version of Office. I copy plots from Excel to Word often when writing
reports without any problems. Recently, I've began submitting reports
electronically via email and my professor uses a PC. When he opens my
files, Y-axis labels are missing. He can subsequently forward my email
back to me and when I open it on my powerbook, they labels are there
still. This appears to be some incompatibility between Word on Mac vs
PC?

Any help would be appreciated as this is a pretty big problem for me.

Thanks!

Michael

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

On Mac
-----------
Construct linear plot in Excel including:
1. Title
2. X-axis label
3. Y-axis label

Copy and Paste into Word

Save and send to PC


On PC
----------
Open file in Word

Notice Y-axis label is gone


I'm a Biochemistry student who uses Excel to do lots of number
crunching. I use a 1.25G Powerbook G4 with OS X 10.4.3 and the newest
version of Office. I copy plots from Excel to Word often when writing
reports without any problems. Recently, I've began submitting reports
electronically via email and my professor uses a PC. When he opens my
files, Y-axis labels are missing. He can subsequently forward my email
back to me and when I open it on my powerbook, they labels are there
still. This appears to be some incompatibility between Word on Mac vs
PC?

Any help would be appreciated as this is a pretty big problem for me.

Thanks!

Michael

Michael,

I created a linear chart in Excel 2004 on Mac. Opened Mac Word,. In a new
document added a few les of junk pasted in the excel chart, added a few more
lines of junk. Saved the document (over my network) to my windows XP Pro PC.
Opened the document in Word 2003, and it looked fine. Y axis labels were
present.

I then reopened the document in Mac Word. Saved it to the Mac desktop with a
different name. used the finder to copy it to my PC. Opened the new document
with Win Word. It also looked fine.

Perhaps there is a font issue, or your Excel chart and Word document are
somehow different than you are describing. If you can supply some more
details, I will be happy to try again.

 

[mmmmark]

I created a linear chart in Excel 2004 on Mac. Opened Mac Word,. In a new
document added a few les of junk pasted in the excel chart, added a few
more
lines of junk. Saved the document (over my network) to my windows XP Pro
PC.
Opened the document in Word 2003, and it looked fine. Y axis labels were
present.

I then reopened the document in Mac Word. Saved it to the Mac desktop with
a
different name. used the finder to copy it to my PC. Opened the new
document
with Win Word. It also looked fine.

Perhaps there is a font issue, or your Excel chart and Word document are
somehow different than you are describing. If you can supply some more
details, I will be happy to try again.

Did you copy and paste the Excel chart into Word?

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

Did you copy and paste the Excel chart into Word?

If you are asking me, yes I did. See the first sentence of my original
reply.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

There are some known problems in the Windows version of Excel that were
corrected in product updates. Be sure that the Windows users have
updated their copy of Office.

-Jim

 

[Klaus Kamppeter]

Copy and Paste into Word

If you paste as image (PICT), there will be a problema with vertical
text, that will not show up or print correctly. Normally, I just avoid
vertical text. If I need vertical text, on older systems I printed to an
eps (encapusated postscript), and imported it from Word. Printing to an
pdf might work as well.

bye