How to paste an Excel Chart into a wordpress page

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  janbel · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 3:42 pm

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  Hi,

  I am cutting and pasting an article into a wordpress page. The article has charts that are made in excel (but copied and pasted into Word). When I paste article from Word to wordpress, the charts do not show up. How do I change this? Its not as if I can do upload file since the charts are just objects not files. Thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 4:26 pm

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  Don’t paste directly from MS Word: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/ .

  You will have all kinds of problems. Use the paste from Word icon in the extended tool bar: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/ .

  Tables in posts have to be html tables which have to be hand coded in html. WordPress does not provide any way to make tables in the editor they use. WordPress, and the web in general do not recognize Excel tables.

  Your best bet may be to upload the excel or Word document to a third party site such as box.net and then provide a link to that file in your post, or use the box.net widget: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/using-the-boxnet-widget/ .

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 4:31 pm

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  Actually, you can upload Word files to wordpress. They won’t show as a post, but you can link to them so that people can download them.

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  ellaella · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 4:51 pm

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  I think VodPod can be used to put Excel charts in a post.

  /nod to tsp

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 4:57 pm

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  @ella, I had forgotten about the vodpod alternative, and I think you are right.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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  @janbel
  Here is a link to a forum post you might want to check out about some of the new vodpod capabilities: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=22843&replies=23

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  isadora · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 6:30 pm

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  Why don’t you just make screenshots of the excel charts? If they are supposed to be only informative charts (i.e. don’t have to be “interective”) screenshots will do.