Pasting Excel table on illustrator

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to copy an excel table into illustrator, however I want it to be a vector graphic, and when I try
to increase it's size it becomes really ugly and the lines get all messed up.
I noticed though that if I could convert it to a PDF from illustrator and place it in again as that, it would
become a vector graphic, and I would not have any of these problems.
Anyone faced this issue before, any ideas?
Ted.

I never tried pasting from Excel, I always open a PDF. By “clean up” I meant that a lot of extra crap comes in, like white or unfilled and unstroked objects. Also any object with both a fill and a stroke comes in as two objects. You no doubt noticed this already.
If the graphs are relatively simple you might prefer to rebuild them with Illustrator’s rather weak and not-upgraded-in-over-a-decade Graph tools. If you have a lot of graphs all similarly formatted then generating one in Illustrator, tweaking the appearance, and duplicating and editing to make the rest might be easier than fixing each damned Excel graph.
As for font problems, I don’t know about that, I’m on a Mac and haven’t had that problem when working with the Macintosh version of Excel. If you are using Excel on one computer and Illustrator of another then the fonts on each system may not be the same. That’s all I got for that one.

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