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Convert Excel charts for use in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Convert Excel charts for use in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator

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Convert Excel charts for use in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator

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- [Voiceover] You can get some really cool looking charts in Excel, but sometimes you want to use them in your Adobe apps. Now, I did go through this in some detail in a previous video in this chapter about how to get this chart or these kind of charts into Adobe Illustrator in order to edit the vectors. To edit the actual bars and change the colors and so on. And, if that's what you need to do, you should check that video. I thought that I should devote just one video to people who really don't need to edit the charts, they just need to get it into those other apps. If you're going to copy and past though, instead of save as picture, I would recommend that Mac users change the typeface. I talked about this as well in the Excel chart to Illustrator video. But, there's some sort of glitch with the font that Excel uses on the Mac side. It's not an issue on Windows. But, on the Mac side, before you start copying and pasting you might want to right-click, choose font, and change the…

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