Fonts Skewed on Excel Charts in PDF

Copy/pasted Excel charts as a picture into Word 2007. Converted Word 2007 to pdf (Acrobat 8.1.2), but fonts within charts appear very heavy bold (unreadable), even when not bolded, whether printed or viewed on screen. Using Windows XP. Any ideas?

Hi ,
Since it is a workbook Copy and inset query Twice.  Use one result set as source for your Chart and hide this result  area. You can use the second result set for  navigation.
Jaya

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