WD97: Chart Missing When Pasting Grouped Items from Excel

ID: Q173052

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Word 97, when you paste grouped items, including a Chart object created in Microsoft Excel 97, the chart is missing.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, in Excel, select and copy the chart and the other items (a text box in this example) without grouping them. Then paste the objects into Word and group them there. To do this, follow these steps:

1. In Excel, select the text box, and then press and hold down the SHIFT

   key and select the chart.


   Both objects should be selected.

2. On the Edit menu, click Copy.

3. In Word, click Paste on the Edit menu.

4. Right-click the selected objects, point to Grouping, and then click

   Group.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

NOTES:

- The image of the chart appears on the clipboard and is pasted into both

  Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

- This symptom occurs with any object grouped with a chart; however, when

  you group any objects other than a chart, pasting works as expected.

For additional information about Excel chart problems in Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q157638
   TITLE     : WD97: Microsoft Excel 97 Chart Object Becomes Picture
               Converting to Word 7.0

Additional query words: 8.0 8.00

Keywords          : winword word97 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug kbinfo

Last Reviewed: February 12, 1999