More red X from mac to pc

[Bette Gardner]

My problem is creating documents in Word in which I insert charts from
Excel. Using Office X and up to date Mac hardware & software, when I send to
PC users, some of them (but not all) get red X¹s in place of the graphics on
some of the charts (but not all).

My latest problem #1: I copy chart in Excel and paste ³as object² into the
Word document. My PC-based colleague can see all the charts except for one,
which is a red X instead. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT ELSE I CAN DO? They need the
file in Word so it¹s not ok to just send as pdf files. And I¹ve tried
pasting these ³as a picture file² but I get even more red X problems that
way.

My latest problem #2: When I paste charts from Excel into the body of a
Word document a few of them but not all end up in the header space. When I
view the header, the chart is greyed so I can¹t delete it from there. I can
access it and delete it from the main document, but I can¹t insert it back
into the text without it becoming part of the header. Has anyone else
experienced this & anyone know what to do about it?

A solution to share: I have learned from this newsgroup and painful trial
and error myself how to get Excel charts into Powerpoint without PC users
seeing them as red Xs.....in Excel I copy the chart, then in PPT I paste ­
special ­ as picture, then I ungroup the picture (which converts it to an
object), then regroup it. This is a pain but it works.

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi

Try dragging the Excel graphs to the Office Clipboard (turn it on using View

Office Clipboard). Then in Word drag them from the Office Clipboard into your

Word document. The office clipboard works differently from the Mac
clipboard, so it is possible that it might make a difference.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Brad]

Hello,
I have a similar problem: When sharing Excel graphs and charts
pasted into Word on a PC, they often do not show up on the mac. I'm
using OS X 10.2.6, and have Office vX updated to 10.1.4. I run into
this problem quite frequently, and it appears to be centered around
window metafiles. Is there any help? MS owns the *.wmf format, Word
for PC, Excel for PC, Word for Mac and Excel for Mac. Why can't data be
seemlessly shared between all of these apps? I thought that was the
advantage of an integrated software suite? Please help.

-Brad

-----Original Message-----
Hi

Try dragging the Excel graphs to the Office Clipboard (turn it on using View

Office Clipboard). Then in Word drag them from the Office

Clipboard into your
Word document. The office clipboard works differently from the Mac
clipboard, so it is possible that it might make a difference.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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Thanks.

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[Dennis Mateik]

I've had success using an office alternative on my Mac. Every time a
document displays the RedX, I quit the Microsoft product, launch (in
my case) ThinkFree Office, and open the document with few problems.
Then I open the original Microsoft application and the graphics filter
works as it should and displays the graphic. No RedX. The office
alternatives have limitations in my environment since many of our
documents use the advanced features of the Microsoft products, but
this fixes the RedX problem every time. If someone could figure out
how to launch the graphics filter on command, that would fix this for
good.