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From: Elizabeth Thomas
Date: Mar 13, 2025 10:47AM

Microsoft Excel has a feature where you can add the table of data below a graph/chart. However, when the chart and table are exported to PDF, the chart and table are both artifacts and the table content is tagged as paragraph text with no table structure included. This is also true if you first put the chart and table into Word and then export to PDF.
Does anyone know if there is a way to use excel’s chart with table feature so that the data table is actually tagged as a data table? I could probably manually tag it in the PDF, but this particular document has 50 graphs so I don’t want to manually tag 50 tables.
I know I could just create all 50 tables in Word by copying and pasting the data from Excel, but I was hoping that someone would know a way to use the chart with table feature instead.
Thanks in advance.
-Elizabeth Thomas