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Grabbing (WP) from Excel??

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From: Ferreira Tinto
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 1990 08:37
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Ok. Here's the problem. In the computer lab where I work, a lot of
users have come in lately, trying to grab (using grab.com from WordPerfect 5.1)
some graphs from excel (I forget the version. I only know it runs under
windows 2.11 (or earlier).
	Now what happens, when they invoke grab, is first of all,
when grab writes to the disk, the screen goes absolutely nuts (looks
like a lost sync). The, when you retrieve the grabbed image into WP, it is not
a black on white (like it looks on the screen of excel), but it is black on 
gray. Needless to say most of them are annoyed at this to say the least.
	I checked, and it has nothing to do with the gray-scaling factor
in the figure edit menu.

	Does anyone know, how to make it come up black on white? Not gray
on black? Does what I exlpained make any sense in the first place?
	We are using PS/2 50's, if it makes a difference, and we are running
the software off of a Novell network.
	If I forgot some info, ask. I would really try to find out what is
going on. (I suspect it has something to do with the way windows handles its
color palettes, but can't figure out a way around that.

Thanks in advance for any helpful hints.
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Subject: Grabbing (WP) from Excel??
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