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Convert Excel charts into editable Illustrator objects

Convert Excel charts into editable Illustrator objects

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Convert Excel charts into editable Illustrator objects

- [Voiceover] Very often, you have a really cool-looking chart that was created by Excel from the data in Excel file, and you'd like to be able to reuse that chart in something a little bit more high-end, like, say an annual report that you're putting together, or even just a poster or CellSheet. You might want to change some of the colors, maybe change it from RGB to CMYK, that kind of thing. In other words, you wanna get this out and into an image-editing program, preferably one that can edit vectors, lines, and fortunately, the most recent versions of Office and of Adobe CC make it much more difficult to do. In the olden days, you could isolate the chart on its own spreadsheet or its own workbook, print it out to PDF, just by using the Acrobat command in Windows or printing to the Adobe PDF printer on a MacIntosh, and then edit that PDF in Acrobat or even in Illustrator, saving it out as an AI file. But it doesn't work very well at all anymore because of the weird additional coding…

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