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Jack on September 15, 2006 - 3:51am

Does this work?

1)Click on camera icon on toolbar to the right of the "select text" icon in Adobe.
2)In PDF draw line around the image
3)It should say "Saved to clipboard". If not, then copy image
4)Paste into another program (Word seems to work)
5)Save word document as html.
6)Go to place you saved the document and look for html file and image

1)Follow steps 1-3 above
2)Paste into Excel

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Oil CEO on September 15, 2006 - 4:16am

You better believe it works. I could never figure that out. I never knew what the camera icon was. It doesn't look like a camera to me unless you know it is supposed to be a camera. It worked in both Word and Excel. Although I used the "Select Table" tool for Excel. Thanks buddy, you just made my week and saved me probably at least 1000 hours off the rest of my life.

Major points awarded.

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Jack on September 15, 2006 - 5:10am

I sort of learned that from the Excel Bible, which noted that you can't save Excel directly as jpgs and suggested a similar methodology. How are you saving Excel charts and tables in html compatible format?

Sometimes I want to save a chart in Excel as an image and have to paste them first into Word or Powerpoint, which gives the image options under "paste special", then back into Excel. Any better ways to do it?

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Oil CEO on September 15, 2006 - 5:23am

That's exactly how I do it. I haven't figured a better way. It is a wicked pain. I just had never been able to do it with PDF.

With tables I use an option that ends up being PNG I think it is, it gives better large image quality than JPEG. Other times I use bitmap option. But mostly it is the Windows enhanced metafile, I think. I never use the paste as excel object option, it always screws things up. I always post into Word with images and then access image in separate folder like you laid out.