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Joanna Castillo
We have some Excel charts with thousands of data points that we want to paste
into Word. In order to reduce the file size, we have been using "Paste
Special" and "bitmap" or "device independent bitmap" as the option. That
would put a high-resolution bitmap into the Word file that would be much
smaller in size than pasting as Windows MetaFile or something similar. And,
it would still print nicely on laser printers. Lately, the "bitmap" option
isn't really pasting a bitmap. It's pasting a WMF file (or something
similar) that has all the data points and is very large in size. The
high-resolution bitmap option seems to have disappeared. Any ideas on what
might have changed? We've tried several different machines (all running
Windows XP with Office 2003) and they're all exhibiting the changed behavior.
If we try pasting the charts into PowerPoint, then copying them, and using
the "Paste Special/bitmap" option into Word, we get a low-resolution (72- or
96-dpi) bitmap instead of the high-resolution bitmap previously available.
into Word. In order to reduce the file size, we have been using "Paste
Special" and "bitmap" or "device independent bitmap" as the option. That
would put a high-resolution bitmap into the Word file that would be much
smaller in size than pasting as Windows MetaFile or something similar. And,
it would still print nicely on laser printers. Lately, the "bitmap" option
isn't really pasting a bitmap. It's pasting a WMF file (or something
similar) that has all the data points and is very large in size. The
high-resolution bitmap option seems to have disappeared. Any ideas on what
might have changed? We've tried several different machines (all running
Windows XP with Office 2003) and they're all exhibiting the changed behavior.
If we try pasting the charts into PowerPoint, then copying them, and using
the "Paste Special/bitmap" option into Word, we get a low-resolution (72- or
96-dpi) bitmap instead of the high-resolution bitmap previously available.