Here are links to my OpenOffice spreadsheet, also an xls spreadsheet and the resulting image:

kronometric.org/tmp/inflation.jpg
kronometric.org/tmp/inflation.ods
kronometric.org/tmp/inflation.xls

It’s well worth down-loading OpenOffice (from Sun Microsystems – the JAVA people) – it’s free, as opposed to Gates’ expensive offering – and it is really powerful.

TTFN,

Ted

I have had similar frustrations. Easiest thing I have found is for you to create your chart on a separate Excel sheet, but DO NOT set it up as the entire sheet, rather embed it in a sheet separate from your data.

Then, go to File > Save as Web Page and select the sheet your chart is in.

It will create a folder and a file in the area you designate. Navigate to that folder and the chart will be in a .gif or .jpg image there.

Let me know if you need a run through and I can work one up for you.

Best,
Mike

I had to dig into this a bit more because it’s something that has frustrated me for a long time. I’ve got my Excell 2003 tricked out to export to PNG pretty slick.

First step is to create the macro in your PERSONAL.XLS file. This houses macros that load every time.

I have tweaked my macro to the following:

Sub Export_PNG()
Dim fname As Variant
Dim This As chart

‘ Select a chart object
Set This = ActiveChart

‘ get a filename to export image to
fname = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(“”, “PNG Images (*.png), *.png”)
If fname <> False Then
This.Export fileName:=fname, FilterName:=”PNG”
End If
End Sub

The next step is to modify the Chart menu….

0) Create a chart and select it, so that the Data menu switches to the Chart Menu
1) Go to Tools->Customize and select the Commands tab
2) In the left box scroll down and select Macros
3) In the right box click on Custom menu item
4) Drag the custom menu item to the chart menu and release it
5) There should now be a new custom menu item in the Chart menu
6) Select this item from the menu – it should pop a dialog and ask what macro to assign to it. Select the Export_PNG macro

In theory this all works and you now have a permanent menu command to export a chart. Just click on the chart you want to export then select the menu item in the CHart menu. I say in theory because I’m still messing with PERSONAL.XLS myself trying to make it all work.

Good luck!

In the other application (PowerPoint, Word, etc.,) from the Edit menu select “Paste Special.” One of the options is to past as an image (I think .bmp is the default).

No need for macros or anything like that just to paste an image file.

That sounds like the ideal way to do it, and I would think that feature would be part of Excel for Windows. Unfortunately it isn’t in Excel 2003. It may be in more recent versions.

1. Right-click on a chart (or any other element such as a cell, text block, or button) to reveal a pop-up menu.
2. Select “Save as Picture…” which causes a dialog window to appear.
3. Enter a name for the chart, choose where you will save it, and choose a graphic format.

The default format is PNG. Other choices are GIF, JPEG, PICT, and BMP. (PICT may not be available in the Windows version.)

A bit of googling came up with a better option. A simple macro does the trick. Past the fllowing into a macro for your target spreadsheet:

Sub Create_PNG()
Dim This As chart
Set This = ActiveSheet.ChartObjects(1).chart
This.Export Filename:=”C:\export.png”, FilterName:=”PNG”
End Sub

Run the macro and it will export to the named image file. I prefer PNG format for line art as it maintains the quality of the original and is much better compression for line art than will JPG.