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Subject:Final: Rotating an inserted Excel file into Word From:Jean Cooper <Jean -dot- Cooper -at- twtelecom -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:49:36 -0700
If you are interested in what people said about this, the consensus is that
there is no easy solution. (But there should be!) Most people agree that the
best way to handle this problem is to use a graphics program to rotate the
image of the Excel spreadsheet and then paste it back into Word. The
drawbacks are that you won't be able to edit the Excel sheet, and the
quality of the image might be compromised.
Thank you to all of you who offered suggestions. I really appreciate your
help.
If any of you would like to see what other workarounds people suggested ,let
me know and I'll send them to you.
Jean Cooper
Technical Writer
Renaissance Worldwide, Inc.
Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
303-542-4156
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Original post:
Before I state my question, let me just say that I know how to rotate
drawing objects and text boxes in Word. But rotating an Excel file is
proving to be much harder (for me).
Here's my situation:
I want to insert a one-page Excel file into a Word doc. The Word doc is in
portrait, the Excel file is in landscape (and needs to be -- if it were in
portrait, it wouldn't fit on the page). I'd like to insert the Excel file
into the Word doc and then rotate it 90 degrees so that it's in portrait and
can have the same headers and footers that the rest of the document has. (Or
I can rotate it before I insert it - it doesn't matter.) But when I try to
Format Object, the rotating option is always grayed out.
I've looked in Help but it keeps trying to direct me to "rotating drawing
objects." And please note that I'm not referring to rotating the text within
the cells. I'm hoping to be able to rotate the entire Excel file 90 degrees.
Any ideas???
Thank you in advance!
Jean Cooper
P.S. I know this is easy to do in FrameMaker. Sigh.
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