If the client can't send the original files or for some reason they don't work correctly, you can also copy the data and paste into your favorite spreadsheet program, export from there as plain text. Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur" ________________________________________________ Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame * Certified speaker: International Platform Association http://goingbeyondsustainability.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) Watch my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 (move your mouse to "event videos") _________________________________________________ On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:39 PM Annamarie Pluhar via Hidden-discuss < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote: > Hello Lynne, > > The client has embedded the charts. They need to send you the originals > (in Excel?) before you can manipulate them. Been there, had that issue. > Hope they can do that for you. > > Washeth thy hands! > Annamarie > > On 27 May 2020, at 12:48, Lynne Rudie via Hidden-discuss wrote: > > Hello Hidden Techies — > I have a question about Word that I hope someone can help me with. > First, I don’t use Word for anything of my own but I have clients who send > me Word documents so that I can cut and paste the text into my layout > files. I am currently working on a pro bono project for an organization I > belong to. The Word document I have received is mostly “regular” text but > there are a few pages that are simple charts that I need to format > appropriately. > The problem is that when I click on a chart in the Word document it acts > as though it is a small spread sheet and I am unable to extract the content > as plain text. I am told that there is an easy way to extract the text but > no one in the organization has been able to tell me how to do it. > If someone on this awesome list can help me out I would be very grateful. > Thank you! > Lynne > > > Lynne Rudie Graphic Design > See my contact info at: LynneRudie.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20200527/19d9dda4/attachment.html>