I never thought of doing this before and not sure how to ask but, is there a way to take a table in Excel and place it on your desktop as like a picture that is linked to the table? I have a table that shows the open and close times of the major stock exchanges around the world that I convert into eastern standard time as well as show the current time for them in their time zones and it would be nice to be able to have it on the desktop without having to have Excel open. If someone could just point me in the right direction if it is possible to do it. I've tried to find something on it but not sure what to even look for.

Hi MrCrum,

You can paste an Excel table into Word as a linked object and display that, but such an approach seems futile - instead of having Excel open, you need to have Word open. In any event, the linked image in Word would only update the time display when Excel is running ... which sort of defeats the purpose.

Of course, anyone running Vista or Win 7 can have their own clock gadget running on the desktop. In that case, all you might really need is a desktop image that shows the stock exchanges' open and close times. That's fairly easy to do.

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Thanks for the reply! Maybe it's time for me to join you guys in the 21st century and learn something about gadgets and widgets. Thanks again!!!