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Chapter 9

Picture (met afile) . You can paste pivot tables, text output, and charts as metafile

pictures. The picture format can be resized in the other application, and sometimes

a limited am

ount of editing can be done with the facilities of the other application.

Pivot tables pasted as pictures retain all borders and font characteristics.

RTF (rich text format). Pivot tables can be pasted into other applications in RTF format.

In most appl

ications, this pastes the pivot table as a table that can then be edited in

the other application.

Bitmap. Charts can be pasted into other applications as bitmaps.

BIFF. The c

ontents of a table can be pasted into a spreadsheet and retain numeric

precision.

Text. The contents of a table can be copied and pasted as text. This can be useful for

applicati

ons such as e-mail, where the application can accept or transmit only text.

Copying a Table or Chart

E Select the table or chart to be copied.

E From the menus choose:

Edit

Copy

Copying and Pasting Results into Another Application

E Copy the results in the Viewer.

E From the menus in the target application choose:

Edit

Paste

Edit

Paste Special...

Paste. Output is copied to the clipboard in a number of formats. Each application

determin

es the “best” format to use for Paste. In many applications, Paste will paste

results as a picture (metafile). For word-processing applications, Paste will paste