By default, Gmail does not retain the spreadsheet format when you paste from Microsoft. Select and copy-paste the Microsoft Excel table to a Microsoft Word. Click on the mail format tab and then editor options. Next click on the advanced options on the left. Scroll down a little ways and you will see the cut, copy, and paste options. Drop down each option and select match destination formatting or keep text only. You can also click on the smart cut and paste options to fine tune your pasting.

I am having trouble with the copy/paste function between Excel and Word. I am trying to paste a spreadsheet from Excel into a Word document, but it needs to fit on ONE page. I have looked on other forums at tons of other people's threads and tried everything. I can get it to fit to one page by copying as a picture or paste special but, as far as I can tell, there is no way to size it so that the quality is intact. I'm doing this for my boss, and every time we size it to fit, it ends up looking like (in her words exactly) 'a cake that has fallen in on itself.short and fat' (stretching of the words and figures, even when using the corner instead of the sides). Please help me! Google caldndar for mac.

I've tried regular copy/paste, but when I try and make it fit on one page, I only have so much room to adjust the size. I have MS on my computer, so when I try these things out, they work. I don't have the information she wants done, so I improvise with my own to test it out, and it always seems to work, but when I go into her office with her Mac and the information to be used, it NEVER WORKS!!!!! I am very frustrated and after two days of this, I'm ready to pull out my hair. Thanks in advance for your gracious advice!! A side note, after messing with it some more, I was able to paste one worksheet to the Word document to fit the page without adjusting it (copy as picture and then DON'T TOUCH IT AFTER IT'S PASTED) but not only is it not centered on the page, but 90% of the text within the table is blacked out like it's censored or something! Really, guys, I'm getting fed up!

I tried adjusting the size of the table in Excel prior to pasting, but the only thing that changed was which cells were blacked out. Well you can try use a menu Insert Object, choose Ms excel Worksheet,and then you copy your excel data into that sheet, it's more easy like that Tried that. The spreadsheet created in Word is a funky size, and when you try to make it the correct size, it stretches the words. Like I said, I can do it six different ways in regular MS Word for Windows, but when I do it on Word 2004 for Mac, everything gets messed up. There are three different spreadsheets that need to be copied onto three separate pages within a Word doc.