I hadn't run across this behavior, but it sure is a major drawback.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"MS" wrote in message
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Jon, Thanks, I found it. However, if I use the "copy as picture", even if
the
graph is hi-lighted, it looks like it copies the picture and I can paste
it
back into Excel and Paint - but not into Photoshop for example.

Arguably, I can save the picture as MS-paint file and then reopen that
file
in PS but if you have to do 20-30 graphs for publication then this is just
an
incredible nuisance. I still hope that somebody can point me to a way to
do
the oldfashioned "Copy Picture" = "as bitmap" in a format that is
recognized
by Photoshop, Corel or any other professional graphics program.


"Jon Peltier" wrote:

Copy Picture is still present in Excel 2007, and it's right where you
should
have thought to look: at the bottom of the Paste button dropdown (which
appears when you click the bottom half of the split button). I'm not sure
this is really more discoverable than Shift+Edit.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
http://PeltierTech.com
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"MS" wrote in message
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Bernard, Thanks for the reply. Yes I know that the older versions
(including
2003 ) support the "copy picture" function through Shift Edit = Copy
picture..

However, I am using Office 2007 beta 2 in which this function appears
to
have been deleted. There is the option to copy a chart to the clipboard
but
the clipboard can only be exported to other Microsoft programs.
Curiously,
that includes MS Paint but non-microsoft programs such as Adobe
Photoshop
cannot see the clipboard and it is not possible to paste the copied
chart
into a new file.

The two options a
1 copy and paste into Paint and then reopen file in Photoshop
2 Print Screen and paste the entire screen into PS.

Either way is frankly unacceptable for publishing -- it just takes way
too
long.

In other words, unless Microsoft adds the copy picture option back in
(it
does not come up in the help menu / search either), the 2007 version is
not
usable for mine and many other user's purposes.

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

What version are you using? Copy Picture is on Excel 2003. Hold Shift
before
click the Edit menu item
best wishes
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Bernard V Liengme
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"MS" wrote in message
...
In the old Excel versions Shift + edit gave the option "copy
picture".
This
does not seem to exist anymore and just copying a chart does not
allow
to
paste it into other programs like Photoshop.

Any help is greatly appreciated