Mac/Windows Excel translation

prkoch

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A problem occurs with MS Excel 2004 charts that are copied from Excel, pasted into MS Word 2004 as a "Picture", then sent to a colleague to open in MS Word for Windows.

The problem is that, on the Windows machine, some of the lines in the text boxes are truncated along the right side. The only workaround I have so far is to give the text boxes an extra wide right margin on the Mac. They will look odd on the Mac, but reasonable on the Windows machine.

Likewise, with legends in Excel charts, I have to stretch the legend box horizontally to ensure that legend text is not truncated when the Excel chart appears in an Office for Windows document.

My two questions:
(1) Are there settings on either side of this Mac/Windows divide to ensure that the text truncation problem does not occur?
(2) Does Office 2008 address this issue?

Thanks in advance.
 
try setting the font on the mac machine to other than verdana. Verdana does not behave well when moving to Windows.Arial misbehahes at times too. Use Times or Gil Sans or Helvetica or some other common font.
 
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