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Copy/Export Tables in Output Viewer to Word

Ralph Grubb
In SPSS v.15, you could right click on a Table in Output Viewer and "Copy Objects" and paste it into Word as a picture. The advantages were that it looked exactly like the Table image in Viewer and could easily be resized and moved.
 
In SPSS v.17 the only option for the same action appears to be "Export" with none of the desirable attributes cited above. What happened to "Copy Objects"? Thanks. Ralph
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Re: Copy/Export Tables in Output Viewer to Word

Steve Simon, P.Mean Consulting
Ralph Grubb wrote:

> In SPSS v.15, you could right click on a Table in Output Viewer and
> "Copy Objects" and paste it into Word as a picture. The advantages were
> that it looked exactly like the Table image in Viewer and could easily
> be resized and moved.
>
> In SPSS v.17 the only option for the same action appears to be "Export"
> with none of the desirable attributes cited above. What happened to
> "Copy Objects"? Thanks. Ralph

I can't say what happened in version 17, but there are a variety of
screen print programs that can take a snapshot of a region of the
screen. I use a commercial product, SnagIt, but there are some free
alternatives out there as well.

These programs produce bitmaps (BMP), which sometimes don't scale as
well as windows metafiles (WMF), but I've found they work fine for any
reasonable rescaling.
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Re: Copy/Export Tables in Output Viewer to Word

Jason Burke
In reply to this post by Ralph Grubb
Copy the selected object from the Viewer, and select "Paste Special" in the target application. You should see a variety of picture and text formats.

Cheers,


Jason

On 01/01/2010 1:41am, Ralph Grubb <[hidden email]> wrote:

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