On the image quality issue, there are two things that can mess things up.
First, you want to save the image to an appropriate format. "BMP" is best, because it's lossless, but it also results in large files. Second-best is "PNG", which is often visually indistinguishable from BMP and produces much smaller files.
Second, you want to avoid--at all costs!--having Word or PowerPoint resize your image, which will wreak havoc with the image quality. I believe Word will leave the image at its natural size (and therefore best quality) if the image fits within the page margins. Otherwise, it will shrink the image to fit, and all hell will break loose as edges get the jaggies and labels get all blurred. So the secret is to resize your graph pane before saving an image so that the saved image will fit within a Word page. (By default, NodeXL uses the graph pane size as the saved image size.)
-- Tony
First, you want to save the image to an appropriate format. "BMP" is best, because it's lossless, but it also results in large files. Second-best is "PNG", which is often visually indistinguishable from BMP and produces much smaller files.
Second, you want to avoid--at all costs!--having Word or PowerPoint resize your image, which will wreak havoc with the image quality. I believe Word will leave the image at its natural size (and therefore best quality) if the image fits within the page margins. Otherwise, it will shrink the image to fit, and all hell will break loose as edges get the jaggies and labels get all blurred. So the secret is to resize your graph pane before saving an image so that the saved image will fit within a Word page. (By default, NodeXL uses the graph pane size as the saved image size.)
-- Tony
