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Text boxes over charts
I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected
regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry |
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Hi Jerry,
You need to embed the textboxes within the chart object. For the textboxes you have already create the simplest thing is to select them all and the CTRL+X. Now select the chart and CTRL+V. You can now copy the chart and textboxes over to word. For new textboxes just make sure the chart is active when adding textboxes either via the Drawing toolbar or simply typing and pressing enter. Cheers Andy Jerry W. Lewis wrote: I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Thanks,
Jerry "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi Jerry, You need to embed the textboxes within the chart object. For the textboxes you have already create the simplest thing is to select them all and the CTRL+X. Now select the chart and CTRL+V. You can now copy the chart and textboxes over to word. For new textboxes just make sure the chart is active when adding textboxes either via the Drawing toolbar or simply typing and pressing enter. Cheers Andy Jerry W. Lewis wrote: I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Text boxes over charts
Hi Andy,
I have a stacked 3-D effect column chart, which has the same problem as Jerry's - the text boxes disappear when I select the graph to copy and paste into word. Can u help? "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi Jerry, You need to embed the textboxes within the chart object. For the textboxes you have already create the simplest thing is to select them all and the CTRL+X. Now select the chart and CTRL+V. You can now copy the chart and textboxes over to word. For new textboxes just make sure the chart is active when adding textboxes either via the Drawing toolbar or simply typing and pressing enter. Cheers Andy Jerry W. Lewis wrote: I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Text boxes over charts
Did you try my suggestion? Are the textboxes actually embedded within the
chart? Cheers Andy -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info "Fenil Shah" wrote in message ... Hi Andy, I have a stacked 3-D effect column chart, which has the same problem as Jerry's - the text boxes disappear when I select the graph to copy and paste into word. Can u help? "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi Jerry, You need to embed the textboxes within the chart object. For the textboxes you have already create the simplest thing is to select them all and the CTRL+X. Now select the chart and CTRL+V. You can now copy the chart and textboxes over to word. For new textboxes just make sure the chart is active when adding textboxes either via the Drawing toolbar or simply typing and pressing enter. Cheers Andy Jerry W. Lewis wrote: I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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Answered in your other post, using the same suggestion as Andy provided in
the thread you copied this from. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "Fenil Shah" wrote in message ... Hi Andy, I have a stacked 3-D effect column chart, which has the same problem as Jerry's - the text boxes disappear when I select the graph to copy and paste into word. Can u help? "Andy Pope" wrote: Hi Jerry, You need to embed the textboxes within the chart object. For the textboxes you have already create the simplest thing is to select them all and the CTRL+X. Now select the chart and CTRL+V. You can now copy the chart and textboxes over to word. For new textboxes just make sure the chart is active when adding textboxes either via the Drawing toolbar or simply typing and pressing enter. Cheers Andy Jerry W. Lewis wrote: I have prepared a chart [XY (Scatter)] for a report, and labeled selected regions of the chart with text boxes. When the chart is not selected, the text boxes are visible, as desired. When I select the chart to copy and paste into my Word document, the text boxes disappear. I presume that the chart itself comes into the foreground with the text boxes in the background, but I have not found any acceptable way to make the text boxes show up on the chart in the Word document. I have looked at the text box properties and cannot find any option that would make them always on top. The chart options do not include anything that would make it sufficiently transparent so that the text boxes would still be visible when the chart is selected. The picture editor in Word messes up the chart unacceptably. The one kludge that sort of works is to paste the graph into Word, then copy/paste each text box as an individual enhanced meta file picture, and anchor them to the Word paragraph that contains the graph so that they at least move with the graph as I edit the report. Is there a better way? Jerry -- Andy Pope, Microsoft MVP - Excel http://www.andypope.info |
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