error pasting excel chart into word/PP

[droscoe]

I'm trying to paste excel charts into MS word or powerpoint and when I do the pasted chart does not display correctly. All the axes titles and labels strangely become highlighted in black. I've tried a few ways to paste it (simple cut and paste, paste special as a excel chart, or insert object then choose the correct excel file) and all have the same issue. This seems to happen only when the font size of the axes is large and reducing the font size, then pasting the same graph solves the problem (except I need the font to be large).

Anyone seen this problem or know how to fix it?

 

[droscoe]

oh, and I'm using excel 2004 for mac.

 

[droscoe]

this problem also seems to happen whenever the x-axis labels are aligned at any angle other than horizontal.

I searched other threads saw that people don't recommend pasting from excel to powerpoint or word but couldn't find any particular solutions. It sure seems dumb that applications by the same company (same software package even, ie. office) are not compatible with each other.....

No one's got anything?