Pasting from numbers?

I need to paste tables from numbers to pages. everytime i do so, however, the axis, fonts, and all the stuff gets screwed up. With my old PC (ewww!, i know), i would use the "paste special" function and past the table as a picture, thereby preserving all the settings (fonts, borders, etc) as they were in excel. Any ideas how to do this from numbers to pages?

djmurphy04 wrote:
I need to paste tables from numbers to pages. everytime i do so, however, the axis, fonts, and all the stuff gets screwed up. With my old PC (ewww!, i know), i would use the "paste special" function and past the table as a picture, thereby preserving all the settings (fonts, borders, etc) as they were in excel. Any ideas how to do this from numbers to pages?
There is no paste special function. What you can do, if you accept some degraded image quality, is to take a screen shot of the table (command-shift-4 and then drag with your mouse). Then you can import the picture from the desktop.
To limit the degradation of quality you can magnify the display in Numbers before you take the screenshot.

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