Try "Paste Special" in Word if you copied AutoCAD entities to the Windows Clip-board, or Insert Object (in Word), and select AutoCAD Drawing as the object type, and go get the drawing entities you want to bring in. It'll come in and you can double-click it to edit it back in AutoCAD. Yes you have to have AutoCAD, but I'm assuming you AND your intended audience have the AutoCAD you'll need for that step of the process. Either of these methods will work:
PASTE Special:
In AutoCAD, zoom in CLOSE on JUST what you want to take over to word. ANY outside space will go with what you pick up, so if you have to re-size the AutoCAD window to ONLY to be TOTALLY filled with what you want to take over to Word, DO IT ! Then using your favorite method to window JUST what you want to pick up, select it. If its the WHOLE drawing including title-block, Ok. BUT BUT BUT: I've only proven this with ALL MODEL SPACE Drawing objects; I DON'T think Paper-space viewports details will work. I'll leave it to you to work out moving everything to MODEL SPACE. If its just a particular detail, window IT to fill your screen as much as possible. Re-size your AutoCAD window if necessary. Then use AutoCAD: COPY WITH BASE POINT to take it to the Windows CLipboard. Then go to Word and use PASTE SPECIAL to drop it in. What comes in can be resized by the corner grips, and can be edited with a double-click. It opens a session of AutoCAD and EDITS THE DETAIL FROM THE WORD Document, NOT NOT NOT the drawing it came from. Your "Drawing" is now the WORD Document ! Circulate it to anyone with both Word and Autocad. Done deal ! Oh-BTW- It PDF's out just fine, too !
INSERT OBJECT:
Is the other method. Its really the same as above with a sligtly different work-path is all. First- Open the desired Drawing in AutoCAD. THEN Go to your INSERT Tab in Word. Select INSERT OBJECT and select AutoCAD Drawing from the drop-down list . It takes a moment to load the Word routine that does all of this, so wait a moment, then it'll open a NEW EMPTY AutoCAD session and pop you over to the empty AutoCAD Window. Flip to the drawing YOU FIST OPENED in AutoCAD. Select JUST what you want to bring over, using the same "Copy with Base Point" as before, but now there's a HUGE difference: Because THIS time, when you went INSERT OBJECT - AutoCAD Drawing, WORD Opened a NEW session of AutoCAD ! PASTE what you picked up from the drawing YOU opened INTO the session WORD opened. Zoom it CLOSE, resizing the AutoCAD window if necessary, and CLOSE the drawing. Say "YES" you want to save, and it'll pop over into your WORD Document.
At this point, WHICHEVER method you used, you treat the AutoCAD image as any other WORD image, and resize it and move it as you would ANY OTHER IMAGE (Right-Click on the inserted image, and select "Format Object: go to the "Layout Tab, and choose your preference. Any of these will release the image for you to slide around the document as you wish. Re-size it with Grips, and it becomes an illustration for your report, or re-size it to the whole page, and you now have a DRAWING you can circulate as a WORD Document ! You now have a PERFECT zero-line-width AutoCAD entity as your illustration in your WORD Document !
Good luck, and let us know how it goes !
C.Fee
