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Subject: Converting Excel to Word


  Posted by: Just Dropped By - [10525610] Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 17:11

I'm trying to convert an excel file to word format. Any way to do this simply, preferably by only using tools within Microsoft Office?
 
1Perm Dude
      ID: 58532278
      Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 17:16
Can you try to open the file in Word and see if it converts it?
 
2Just Dropped By
      ID: 10525610
      Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 17:17
Thank you for the suggestion but I have tried that and also the copy/paste method. It makes the format wacky.
 
3RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 204401122
      Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 17:45
What version of Office are you using? I'm using 2003 and Copy/Pasted and it retained all the formatting. Admittedly it was a simple test of bolds/colors/bgcolors/borders. Nothing fancy.
 
4Mike D
      Leader
      ID: 041831612
      Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 18:04
You can copy the info from Excel to Notepad, then copy it from Notepad to Word.

Notepad is a nice middle-man.
 
5Richard
      Dude
      ID: 204252420
      Tue, Jun 27, 2006, 20:33
I use Paste Special-Formatted Text (RTF) to maintain my Excel formatting when copying/pasting from Excel to Word

Richard
 
6Just Dropped By
      ID: 10525610
      Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 09:23
Richard, that worked wonders. Thank you. Just needed to widen/tighten some columns but that's very minor. Thanks again.
 
7Richard
      Dude
      ID: 204252420
      Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 10:28
Glad it worked for you.

Richard