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I'm having a hard time copying my graphic (a plot) from Mathematica into a Word document. Every time I copy and paste a graphic, it appears all red. And when I save it as a JPG, it still makes it all red.

I can't find any info concerning my issue.

Am I missing something obvious?

Screenshot of Microsoft Word window showing red hatched graphic

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Can you post a screen shot? – rcollyer Nov 20 '12 at 4:20
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Can you post the code used to generate the plot, your mathematica version, your operating system etc.? – Mike Honeychurch Nov 20 '12 at 5:02
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best thing is to make a simple example in the notebook, and post the notebook itself somewhere. The stylesheet might have an effect also. If the notebook is there, any one can try to repoduce it. Also, how did you copy paste it into word? did you use PASTE->SPECIAL? if so, what option did you use? which version of word, Mathematica, etc.. Your bug report above is not complete at all. – Nasser Nov 20 '12 at 5:40
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MMA and Word do not work well together via the clipboard. A better solution is to save the graphic in either .png or .wmf/.emf format, depending on its nature (raster or vector), and import the saved file in Word. – whuber Nov 20 '12 at 8:26
FWIW I observe no problem for direct copy and paste with either Word 2003 or 2010. That said, I agree with @whuber that usually this method is not optimal. – Oleksandr R. Nov 20 '12 at 15:51

closed as too localized by Szabolcs, belisarius, jVincent, rm -rf♦ Feb 14 at 16:12

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