Flatten Excel Graph in Word? (Office 2007)

[blade52x]

I'm typing up a lab report, and usually in the past I never had a problem with this. I have two graphs on there, and each one contains thousands of points. These graphs are REALLY slowing down Word. I'm getting lagged typing, and overall it feels like I'm using an ancient PC. Is there any way to flatten these images. I know saving as 97-2003 doc does this, but all of my equations blur, and everything just doesn't look good. I end up converting to PDF instead of 97-2003 format and printing that.

So other than just removing the graphs for the time being, or taking a screenshot, cropping and pasting back in, is there anyway to flatten these so they just turn into an image?

Thanks.

 

[eeyrjmr]

probably because pasting the graphs from Excel to word embeds an excel object into word (thus you can edit inside of word)

if you go edit->paste-special (instead of just paste) you can choose to paste as an image instead