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Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« on: Mar 20, 2015, 12:23 pm »
I need a little help here. Evidently, yahoo upgraded my email account. Thanks so much! But now, when I copy the cells of my Show Report from an Excel document, the gridlines appear in the body of the email. Prior to the upgrade, that wasn't the case. A Google search reveals that the upgrade cannot be reversed. So, how do I make the gridlines disappear from the body of my email? (I have tried everything I know and even asked folk half my age!)
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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #1 on: Mar 20, 2015, 01:09 pm »
I'm sure you've tried this... have you unchecked the "View" box for gridlines in the Excel sheet?  I have an Excel file imbedded in a Word document, and that is the way I keep the grid from appearing there...

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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #2 on: Mar 20, 2015, 08:10 pm »
I have. That solves half my problem. The other half is that I only see half my excel spreadsheet in the word doc!
I see the entire length of the doc, just not the entire width.
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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #3 on: Mar 21, 2015, 03:36 am »
Once you've pasted in everything you need, clicking the little double arrows along the bottom of the "compose" window (looks like «, you'll get a popup asking for confirmation) will put your message in plain text mode. You can then click the arrows again to go back to rich text so you can reformat the email. It's a bit of a workaround, but it does remove all grid formatting.

Have you tried copying text not from the cell in Excel, but from the formula bar at the top? That will copy the text but not the formatting (although with this method you would have to copy one cell at a time, unless there's a magic Excel trick I don't know).

Either of these should work unless I'm misunderstanding your question!

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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #4 on: Mar 21, 2015, 12:28 pm »
Interesting.
But I lose all the formatting and have to redo the work.
Thank you tho, for the suggestion.
The search continues...
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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #5 on: Mar 21, 2015, 04:16 pm »
....or can you just paste it as a pdf...?

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Re: Yahoo Upgrade/Excel Gridlines
« Reply #6 on: Mar 22, 2015, 11:37 am »
It's Yahoo.
My MacBook doesn't play well with Yahoo...
I am smarter than my internet service.
I changed the format of my report!
Thanks to all (especially Emily)
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