Excel

Hello Carol

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

As far as I'm aware, a chart can only be copied and pasted into Word by selecting the whole chart, including the white area around it.

What you can do is crop the chart once it has been pasted and so reduce the amount of white area around it.

To use the Crop tool, you'll need to bring up the Picture toolbar in Word (View - Toolbars - Picture).

The Crop tool is roughly in the middle of the Picture toolbar. Once selected you can position your mouse over any of the handles around the edge of the chart, and drag in toward the middle of the chart to chop the white bits off the sides.

There is a link below to a video on YouTube which shows you how the crop tool works, if you have a look at it you'll have to wait through the bit while the person puts an image into the Word document first, but afterwards it goes through how to crop something. It's not the clearest video but might help you to see how the crop tool works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNN9nnfzOII

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Amanda