Copying Excel Worksheet to Any Paint Program

[Patient Guy]

I wanted to copy an Excel spreadsheet to a paint program (I used Microsoft
Paint and Irfan View).

I had selected something like 10 columns (A-J) and 152 rows.

When I did the paste op, the system hung on attempts to do it to both the
bitmap graphics applications.

I think I figured out why.

I tried it on a smaller selection (cols A-C and rows 1-10), and it made an
exact image (661 x 335 px) of the spreadsheet as it would appear with the
client windows at 100% zoom/magnification.

So that explains the hang: with the selection I made, it probably would
have been 4000 pixels wide and 50,000 pixels high. Windows probably should
have stopped at such an attempt.

My question is---short of reformatting the spreadsheet (smaller font use,
smaller widths and heights of cells)-----how might I reduce the image
created so that it is not humungous and does not cause a hang?

 

[John A]

One must ask what you are trying to do!

Reduce the selection area font etc and reduce the zoom level in Excel
Use the screen capture feature in IrfanView to capture the screen,
then crop it.

But the resulting image would probably be unable to be interpreted!

John Allen