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RE: Final: Rotating an inserted Excel file into Word
Subject:RE: Final: Rotating an inserted Excel file into Word From:"Newman, Sarah" <snewman -at- bechtel -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:33:55 -0600
>>If you are interested in what people said about this, the
consensus is that
there is no easy solution. (But there should be!) Most people agree
that the
best way to handle this problem is to use a graphics program to
rotate the
image of the Excel spreadsheet and then paste it back into Word. The
drawbacks are that you won't be able to edit the Excel sheet, and
the
quality of the image might be compromised.<<
If you still need to be able to edit the Excel spreadsheet and you must have
headers and footers that are portrait, here's a possible solution:
1. Insert section breaks and landscape the section
2. Insert the Excel spreadsheet.
3. Create header and footer as text boxes in Powerpoint and rotate them (for
some reason, Powerpoint allows you to rotate text when Word doesn't.
4. Insert the header and footer in the doc as Powerpoint objects.
The headers and footers are still editable, but maintaining page numbers
would be painful. Still, if you really need to edit the Excel spreadsheets,
this might be preferable.
This does work. I did a test file and sent it to Jean.
Sarah Newman
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