Jeff, A PhD student at our institution had a problem with her dissertation file becoming corrupted after going back and forth between a PC and a MAC. I don't know if that's what is going on with yours but after trying to trouble shoot with Microsoft over the phone she ended up mailing the document on a floppy to Microsoft and they fixed it for her - just a thought. Jeanene Jeanene Swiggett, BS MT(ASCP)SH General Surgery Research Cannon Research Center Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC 704-355-7269 jswigget@carolinas.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff_Carrell@hgsi.com [SMTP:Jeff_Carrell@hgsi.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:44 PM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: CellQuest->Word: Where are the plots? > > > Hello All, > > We are compiling a HUGE report which consists of a lot of flow cytometry > data: plots, histograms, and stats generated by CellQuest. Because the > report is being written in Word, for a while we simply selected the items > we wanted from CellQuest, then copied to the clipbaord, then pasted to > Word. This seemed to work just fine for a while, until the document grew > to enormous proportions... > > Now, it seems that sometimes when the Word document is opened, some of the > plots appear as a big red "X", and no matter how the page is moved, > closed, > re-opened, the plot can't be seen. At first we thought somehow the > problem > was a PC-to-Mac thing, because some people are using one or the other and > we're all connected by a network. It doesn't seem to be confined to Macs > or PCs, so we've ruled that out. > > I searched the archive but couldn't find this exactly (much discussion of > Coulter Elite software)--Has anyone experienced this? Is it the size of > the document? Why does it happen intermittantly? Is there a better way > of > showing the data? I saw some reference made to other formats (eg GIF) but > we've found the resolution is lowered when converting to these graphical > formats. > > I am anxious to hear what thoughts are out there. > > thanks, > Jeff Carrell > > Cell Biology Department > Human Genome Sciences, Inc. > 9410 Key West Avenue > Rockville, MD 20850 > (301) 610-5790 ext.2231 >
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