Sure. Sorry if my reply was too brief.
The goal is to insert a graph image into a Word document without having Word resize, and therefore degrade, the image. There are several ways to do that, but here is a technique that's worked for me.
-- Tony
The goal is to insert a graph image into a Word document without having Word resize, and therefore degrade, the image. There are several ways to do that, but here is a technique that's worked for me.
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Open your Word document in Word and your NodeXL workbook in Excel.
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In the ribbon in Word, set View, Document Views to "Print Layout". (That's in Word 2007. I hope it's the same in 2010 and 2013.)
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In the Excel window, left-click your mouse on the "Document Actions" text at the top of the graph pane. The cursor will turn into a 4-way arrow. While holding down the left mouse button, drag the graph pane out of the Excel window and on top of the Word window. The graph pane is "detachable," so you can actually put it anywhere on the screen.
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Once the graph pane is detached and on top of the Word window, resize the graph pane so it fits within Word's page margins. You can do that just like with any other window, with a click-hold-drag of the left mouse button on any of the graph pane's outer borders.
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The graph pane is now the size you want, but the resizing may have distorted the graph. Click "Refresh Graph" to fix this.
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Right-click the graph pane and select Save Image to File, Save Image from the right-click menu.
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In the "Save Image to File" dialog box that pops up, set "Save as type" to "PNG (*.png)", then save the file.
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Drag the graph pane back into the right side of the Excel window. Excel is a bit touchy about this, and you may have to try several times to get the graph pane back where it belongs.
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In Word, use Insert, Illustrations, Picture to insert your saved image into the page.
-- Tony