Copy and Paste
Copy and Paste
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Help! What is the best to copy and paste drawing views into an Excel document? I tried rubberbanding/copy and doesn't work. The only way its been working is filing it as a jpeg or tiff. The reason I'm asking is we do our ECO's in Microsoft Excel and show our proposed changes in a "From" and "To" format.
Any input will help.
Any input will help.






RE: Copy and Paste
Do you need associativity?
If not, use a screen capture program and capture a view to your clipboard in JPEG (or GIF or whatever) format, then simply paste it into Excel. I use a capture program called SPX (inexpensive), but you could use a variety of others.
Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC
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RE: Copy and Paste
RE: Copy and Paste
If you do not really need linked or embedded objects it is best to avoid them and go with an image format of some kind.
Just to demonstrate that this is not all SW fault - get this one. The other day I needed some Excel worksheets in a Word document (preformated template too). SOB would not cooperate at all even with tech pubs' help. In the end I pasted the Excel into Adobe PDF then TIFF'ed out from there and into Word!!!! I wonder if Mr. Gates ever reads this forum......................
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RE: Copy and Paste
1. Arrange your screen to see your intended image
2. Press the 'Prnt Scrn' key on your keyboard
3. Open 'Paint'
4. Use 'Edit', 'Paste' to place the image within a Paint file (maybe even add some 'Paint' text for the ECO)
5. Export as either a tiff and/or a jpeg.
6. Use the jpeg (or tiff) however you wish.
Mousetrap
RE: Copy and Paste
Great idea and also works perfect for what I'm doing. Here is a couple of mods I did:
1. Arranged image
2. Press alt print
3. Open PhotoEd (Microsoft)
4. Paste and crop (if needed)
5. Copy from PhotoEd
6. Paste Excel
All this without saving a hardcopy, cool
Have a nice holiday all and thanks for your help!
macduff
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Boggs
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BTW: A repeat comment. JPEG's are generated from current screen resolution. They don't tend to give you very good resolution for DRAWINGS. They are however usually fine for shaded pics from PARTS and ASSEMBLIES. TIFF's using the print option (verses screen) are recomputed to the resolution you request and will give excellent resolution. However read my previous post on that subject.
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