transfering excel charts from pc's to macs

[sgilman]

I teach at a mostly pc university so in my labs my students use pc's to
write reports and I frequently have to transfer them to my mac.
Sometimes excel charts in their papers come up as big red X's on my
mac. In one paper I'll get one chart okay and one chart is an X, so
apparently the transfer is possible and I've been unable to figure out
the differences in what the students do such that some work and some
don't. What should I tell them to do or what can I do to ensure I get
all their charts?

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello-

Is it possible that the charts that appear as 'placeholders' may actually
have been pasted into the workbook? Since some display & some don't in the
same file that's the only explanation that comes to mind. Try Cmd+Click on
one of the x-boxes and see what appears in the popup menu.

HTH |:>)

I teach at a mostly pc university so in my labs my students use pc's to
write reports and I frequently have to transfer them to my mac.
Sometimes excel charts in their papers come up as big red X's on my
mac. In one paper I'll get one chart okay and one chart is an X, so
apparently the transfer is possible and I've been unable to figure out
the differences in what the students do such that some work and some
don't. What should I tell them to do or what can I do to ensure I get
all their charts?

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