My office uses a report template in Word and I regularly pastes tables from Excel into the template (pasting special as an enhaced metafile). However, since we recently upgraded to Office 2003,I am having trouble with such pasting. Now, when I copy and paste special all I am able to see in the Word template is the very bottom row of the table. I can click on it and move it around and re-size it, but it does not show up on screen. It also does not show up on print preview, but it DOES show up when I print out a hard copy. A few other things to note: (1) I can successfully paste and enhanced metafile into a blank Word document (not the template) and see it just fine. (2) I was able to successfully paste metafiles into the report template on a colleague's computer, using Office 2000. I saved that copy of the report to our network and then opened the file on my machine, using Office 2003. I could then see the tables. But when I then tried to being another table in, I had the same problem again. If anyone knows what the problem is and how to work around it, I'd appreciate your help.
Pasting Enhanced Metafiles with Office 2003
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Pasting Enhanced Metafiles with Office 2003
by Donahue » Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:07:32 GMT
Re: Pasting Enhanced Metafiles with Office 2003
by Cindy M -WordMVP- » Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:53:08 GMT
Hi Donahue, Just guessing, here... but perhaps the template has become slightly damaged. That, or your graphics card driver may be glitching. Or perhaps a combination of the two :-) Since you say it works fine in new documents, you might try recreating the template. Use copy/Paste to bring across everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark to a new document and see if that works any better? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://www.**--****.com/ (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.**--****.com/ This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
Re: Pasting Enhanced Metafiles with Office 2003
by anonymous » Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:19:01 GMT
Hi. Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately they did not do the trick. The problem is happening on multiple machines in the office, so I don't think it's the graphics card driver. I tried re-creating the template as you suggested, but that did not take care of the problem. Thanks anyway. become be try document in I it on hard a and I being around Jun follow
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