How to save high resolution charts .png in Excel for Mac?

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Is there any way to save a chart from excel to a high resolution png-file on office for Mac? I have tried to copy them into Word as well as saving them as a html-file, but the quality becomes really bad. Unfortunately it is not possible to use xtoolbox either as it only exists for Windows.

I would be very grateful for any help. It would also be very interesting if anyone had an explanation why Office does not create a built in tool like xtoolbox - I have tried it on windows and it's super convenient!

Thank you in advance,
Mikael

Tom F · Answer

If you use a multi button mouse with your Mac, you can right click in the body of the chart and there is a "Save as image option", it will save as PNG format.
If you have the magic mouse, go to settings, mouse, and activate the secondary click option.

Ryan · Answer

The way I do this is to save the plot as a file, and from there you can drag and drop the file into whichever application you want.
Here's an example procedure:

right-click the plot in Excel and in the Excel menu, choose Edit > Copy
open Preview app
in the Preview app menu options, choose File > New From Clipboard (now, you should see the plot open as a new file called "Untitled" in Preview)
in the Preview app menu options, choose File > Save, and in the resulting options under Format, choose "PNG", define a name for the file in the "Save As" text box and hit "Save"

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