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pasting figures from M$ powerpoint into Word

Oct 22, 2006 1:33PM PDT

so i am writing my dissertation (finally!!)
Apart form the text i have data figures which i have to have in Word.
I have beed advised the following.(from a Windows person)...make the data figures in powerpoint and copy, do paste special as a enhanced metafile ....into the word document.
SO the problem is that when i do past special i dont see the 'as a enhanced metafile' option. I see two options ..as picture or as a microsoft drawing object. I tried both and aspicutere worked better withrepect to maintinaing the dimensions of the original figure, etc.
But i am facing some problems.....for some reason when i past special some data figures.and click on the 'SAVE' button , Word crashes..meaning just closes and the report window opens up...i did report to apple via this window. So i have qs

is there a enhanced metafile option somewhere that i am not able to locate?
is there any other better option to copy paste figures from ppoint to Word??

MacBook, OS X tiger, M$Office 2004 (version 11.3) for Mac

do let me know

Thanks for reading

K

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Pasting figures etc
Oct 22, 2006 4:19PM PDT

Read the Manual.
It is all there. If in doubt go to Microsoft Office in the CNET Forum.
You should have Microsoft Office X. Not 2004.
Cheers!

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Way to go Taboma!
Oct 23, 2006 12:55AM PDT

Wonderful advice.

Nice to see that you have not changed. I do wonder though, why you would advise the poster to use an OLD version of MS Office and not the latest one, as he is doing.

Are you saying that to accomplish the task, he has to use this older version of Office?


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Figures
Oct 23, 2006 1:10AM PDT

How are the figures in PP laid out? Do you have them as a table or is it just a graphic of the figures?

Instead of Paste Special, what results do you get if you just do a regular paste?

The Enhanced Metafile is a graphic format, per the help file, which is supported by Word. There does not seem to be an option to actually create the EMF from within PP.

Have you tried Drag and Drop as a means of moving the data figures or Pasting as a Picture?

P

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ppoint figures
Oct 23, 2006 10:47PM PDT

the figures are images (tif images) and i have labelled them in ppoint using text box. then i group everything and then do paste special 'as picture' in Word.

If i do regular paste then the image size is huge and if try to shrink it, the labels are not aligned anymore. I tried drag and drop...the result was like regular paste..huge image and labels misaligned.

K

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Never mind..
Oct 25, 2006 5:22AM PDT

i got the solution from another forum!

anyways if anybody is interesed (i have tried only with scientific data like gel picutres,etc).

1.make all the slides withthe gel pictures, etc in powerpoint
2.save the ppoint as 'TIFF' or 'JPEG' or some pplr do as bmp. (for me tiff looked better)
3. ppoint will save all the slides labelled as slid1.slide2 etc in a separate folder
4. From these tiff images which open in preview....one can copy paste 'as picture' into Word.

K

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Interesting
Oct 25, 2006 10:39AM PDT

Glad you got an answer

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Pasting
Oct 27, 2006 2:38PM PDT

Welcome, kafeepot, What a great handle. Like it and unique.
When I receive a PP file I just copy the text and paste into word. The file is text and very small. No need for me to drag and drop.
Choose your method that you like. You are better at than I am.

Visual graphics, copy and paste into Adobe Photoshop for the most part.
Happened today on a project for an advertiser.
Fast and simple to do.

If you use Excell and you want to copy the text into Word, highlight all text and go to set print area. Copy and paste into Word.
Works like a charm. Fast and easy. You are probably light years ahead of my skills.

We do this on a daily basis at our newspaper group:
GATEHOUSE MEDIA.
I am also posting on the Graphic's Forum where this question should have been posted and quickly addressed.
Lots of help there also. Check out the Forum.

Graphics issues? Go to the Graphics Forum.
You will learn a lot from a lot of Super Mods and others.
We all help each other.

Mac technical issues? stay here!

Nice to have you on the Mac Forum, Kafeepot.

-Kevin

Is that OK with you P?