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Lexi_k
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Sep 14, 2024

New MAC user with Excel app question.

I am new to MAC and going back to school using an online platform. The institution provides access to Office 365 and all apps on its website. I can open them, but when I open spreadsheets they come up with blue triangles in the data areas. To open the Excel sheet properly, I figured out I could open the Excel App (from the institution page) in a separate window and drag the assignment spreadsheet linked to my course content into the app. This opens it and lets me edit as I need. The next part of the assignment is to Copy the Excel graph and then Paste Special as a Microsoft Excel Object into the Word document. This is where I am stuck. I do not have the Paste Special option and everything I have tried to paste does not work out.

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  • JKPieterse's avatar
    JKPieterse
    Silver Contributor
    Sep 16, 2024
    Have you opened the app Word, or have you opened Word in a browser window? You should probably try the former. Open the Excel file with the chart in the Excel app and open a fresh empty document in the Word app. Then try the copy/paste special steps.

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