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dreamopacity on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

dreamopacity — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:39:44 +0000

looking good

jonpeltier on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

jonpeltier — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:14:46 +0000

I've posted a small Excel add-in at the end of this article that will export an excel chart as an image file:

http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/enhanced-export-chart-procedure/

justjennifer on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

justjennifer — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:24:05 +0000

@datawiz-Oh.my. That's brilliant! You've made a lot of WordPress.com users very happy indeed. Bookmarked!

datawiz on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

datawiz — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:56:29 +0000

To insert Excel charts into blog posts, use the Excel Web App. Here is an example: http://datawiz.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/visualize-your-data-with-interactive-charts/

thesacredpath on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

thesacredpath — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:55:16 +0000

Yeah, Tarski is very narrow. I would suggest looking at themes that have wider post areas if you are going to be publishing tables.

timethief on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

timethief — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:44:39 +0000

The maximum width for your theme (Tarski) is found here. > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/

thesacredpath on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

thesacredpath — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:35:28 +0000

If you are on Windows, you might check out the blog client called Windows Live Writer which has a table function build into it and I believe you can copy paste spreadsheets from Excel into it and it will convert them to HTML tables. I'm not positive on that, but I am reasonably sure.

http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/

thesacredpath on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

thesacredpath — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:33:19 +0000

For a "spreadsheet" to show up in a blog you have two choices. One is to convert it completely to an HTML table. The other is to use a service such as scribd, but do be aware that if you have a table that is far wider than the available space in the theme you are using, it is either going to be severely distorted in order to show it in the available width, or part of it is going to be completely hidden from view.

Scribd does include zoom in and zoom out functions and will place appropriate scroll bars, but in my experience if you have a large spreadsheet, and a slower internet connection using scribd can be quite painful for a user.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/

timethief on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

timethief — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:30:28 +0000

If you are following those instructions and they are not working for you then you can contact Staff for help on January 3rd, 2011 by using this link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

timethief on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

timethief — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:27:23 +0000

I see that you can upload the .xls, .xlsx (Microsoft Excel Document) files as they are accepted file types. Please see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/

musingsandmotions on "Inserting Excel Charts into Blog Post"

musingsandmotions — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:15:42 +0000

It is impossible to insert Excel charts into blog posts. I tried converting it to a jpeg and a gif. It totally distorts it when uploaded, and you can't see any of the data.