Unable to rotate Excel object pasted into Word

[Guest]

I am creating a report in which I have inserted an Excel document, but the
Excel sheet is in landscape format. When I paste it into the Word report,
(which is in portrait layout), the Excel object just falls off the edge of
the page. I have tried every text wrap setting to try to enable the "rotate
picture" function, but it's greyed out for every option. How can I rotate
the Excel spreadsheet?

 

[Guest]

Hi Brandie-

That's because what you are pasting in is _not_ a picture. As long as you
don't deed updating, revisions, etc., try it this way...

Go into the XL file, select & copy the content you want. Then, in your Word
doc, go to Edit>Paste Special & select one of the Picture options (Windows
Metafile or Enhanced Metafile). You should be able rotate either with no
problem, although they can no longer be edited for text/formatting in Word.

HTH |:>)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for jumping in to the rescue again taz. You're becoming my Word
hero!

Pasting in as a picture is fine if that's the only option...but if I *do*
need linking, is that possible?

 

[CyberTaz]

Glad it helped, but the next answer isn't so easy. I've come to believe that
just about anything _can_ be done in Word, it is just a matter of the extent
one must go to accomplish it.

Unfortunately, rotating Linked Objects falls into this category. I imagine
that if you can write the VBA it can be done, but someone more knowledgeable
than myself would have to address that.

FWIE, my approach would more likely involve creating Section Breaks &
changing the object's page orientation to Landscape.

Regards |:>)