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I'm trying to copy Mathematica figures into word, but when I do, I get tons of extra white-space for some reason. Either standard ctrl-c - ctrl-p or "copy graphic" does this.

I understand that I could export the figure as a graphic, open the png file, and copy it from there into my word document, but I feel like there must be a better way to do this. It's possible this is not a Mathematica issue, but I've only noticed this type of thing when copying pictures from Mathematica. Can anyone help?

extra whitespace from *Mathematica*

This problem occurs for me given even the most basic plot (e.g. Plot[x,{x,-1,1}]). I'm using Mathematica 10.2 Student Edition and the Word 2016 Preview. The Word 2016 preview might seem suspect, but I'm pretty sure I was having the exact same problem before with word 2013.

Partial Solution: I have no idea what the problem is with my system, but using Copy as Bitmap fixed this issue for me.

It still happens with Copy as Metafile.

rhermans
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    Related: (54708), (38715). – Alexey Popkov Sep 27 '15 at 08:00
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    I can not reproduce the extra white spaces using a simple Plot. You might add some code that creates a simplified Plot that can reproduce the behavior you observed. – Karsten7 Sep 27 '15 at 08:04
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    I can NOT reproduce your problem. Office 2007, Windows 7SP1 64bit. Tried Copy as Bitmap and Copy as Metafile. You should give more information about yous system and formatted code. – rhermans Sep 27 '15 at 08:10
  • This problem occurs for me given even the most basic plot (e.g. Plot[x,{x,-1,1}]). I'm using Mathematica 10.2 Student Edition and the Word 2016 Preview. The word 2016 preview might seem suspect, but I'm pretty sure I was having the exact same problem before with word 2013. – aquirdturtle Sep 27 '15 at 08:14
  • @rhermans forgive my ignorance, but how do you copy as bitmap or as metafile in mathematica? – aquirdturtle Sep 27 '15 at 08:15
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    Edit > Copy As...> Last two options, look here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/F2CHO.png – rhermans Sep 27 '15 at 08:18
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    I cannot reproduce the problem with Mathematica 10.2 and Word 2003 on Win7 x64. – Alexey Popkov Sep 27 '15 at 08:18
  • @rhermans I still have no idea what my overall problem is and why it only seems to effect me, but "Copy as Bitmap" fixed the problem for me. Thanks! – aquirdturtle Sep 27 '15 at 08:20
  • Have you tried pasting into some other software? You should [Edit] and update your question withe the new information. Please confirm that it does still happen if Copy as Metafile. – rhermans Sep 27 '15 at 08:21
  • It still happens with copy as metafile. – aquirdturtle Sep 27 '15 at 08:26
  • I cannot confirm. With Mathematica 10.2 and Office 2016 I get http://i.stack.imgur.com/y3IDG.gif –  Sep 27 '15 at 08:37
  • Maybe it is an OS-related issue? Which OS do you use? – Alexey Popkov Sep 27 '15 at 08:51
  • Also are you using x86 or x64 version of MS Office? – Alexey Popkov Sep 27 '15 at 08:57
  • @Alexey Popkov I am on Windows 10, Mathematica 10.2 and Office 2016. I have no problems in copying (ctl C) and pasting (ctl V) figures from Mathematica to Word 2016. The only thing I have to do is to justify the figure with a right mouseclick (text position and size). –  Sep 27 '15 at 09:11
  • My laptop is a x86 and MS Office is x32. –  Sep 27 '15 at 09:15
  • @aquirdturtle Which is your OS and of which bit depth your MS Office 2016 (x86 or x64)? – Alexey Popkov Sep 27 '15 at 11:19
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. –  Sep 27 '15 at 12:16
  • Windows 10 does copying differently than previous OSes, and often doesn't play well with weird copy formats like images from Mathematica. Bitmap should work still, but I doubt this will be fixed with updates. – laudiacay Sep 28 '15 at 16:00
  • Because no one else reported reproducing the problem, I thought I'd comment that I'm having the very same white-space problem with regular 'Copy Graphic'. The problem seemed to appear out of nowhere--except that it did appear after I first used Raster. yup = Graphics[ Raster[ImageData[yu, DataReversed -> True], {{Sqrt[Pi/2] - 0.07, -0.12}, {Sqrt[Pi/2] + 0.07, -0.05}}], Frame -> False] Using Edit/Copy as/Bitmap does give a proper copy. – Scott Barnett Mar 02 '19 at 18:44

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