Word for Windows file containing Microsoft Chart object won't save on Mac

[Stanley Dorst]

My son created a Word document on one of the Windows machines at
school. As part of the document, he created a pie chart in Microsoft
Chart. He brought the file home to work on, but we were unable to save
the file as long as it contained the chart. It consistently said that
there was insufficient disk space, despite there being 48 GB of space
available on the hard disk. If the chart was removed, the document
saved normally.

We still had Microsoft Office X on that computer, so I tried installing
Office 2004 to see if it could do any better, but it couldn't. What is
more, while Office X would allow me to copy and paste the chart from
one document to another (just not to save the document if the chart was
in it), Office 2004 would not allow me to paste the copied chart into
another document. Instead, it inserted the following message: "Error!
Objects cannot be created from editing field codes". I managed to save
the chart as a graphic, and then it could be pasted into another
document and saved, but of course it could not be edited in the same
way, and the quality of the image when printed was not as good as the
original chart.
Is there some way to solve this problem?

Thanks!

Stan

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Stanley:

OK, Word thinks that chart is corrupted. It may well be true.

On the PC, try removing the chart and the two paragraphs either side of it,
then re-creating them. It's likely that the internal information for the
chart has been damaged. Word 2004 can't display the PC version of the
chart, it has to re-create and re-generate the chart using QuickTime. If
the information is damaged, it can't do that.

If you would like to flip me a copy of that document, I can see if I can
figure out what's wrong. Add the password "1106630657.548701.3160" to the
subject line of your email so my firewall doesn't delete your message for
"unsolicited attachment"

Cheers

My son created a Word document on one of the Windows machines at
school. As part of the document, he created a pie chart in Microsoft
Chart. He brought the file home to work on, but we were unable to save
the file as long as it contained the chart. It consistently said that
there was insufficient disk space, despite there being 48 GB of space
available on the hard disk. If the chart was removed, the document
saved normally.

We still had Microsoft Office X on that computer, so I tried installing
Office 2004 to see if it could do any better, but it couldn't. What is
more, while Office X would allow me to copy and paste the chart from
one document to another (just not to save the document if the chart was
in it), Office 2004 would not allow me to paste the copied chart into
another document. Instead, it inserted the following message: "Error!
Objects cannot be created from editing field codes". I managed to save
the chart as a graphic, and then it could be pasted into another
document and saved, but of course it could not be edited in the same
way, and the quality of the image when printed was not as good as the
original chart.
Is there some way to solve this problem?

Thanks!

Stan

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