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    Inserting Excel Spreadsheets into MS-Word Documents

    All the documentation essentially says to copy from Excel and paste into the MS-Word document. When I do that, the formatting of the MS-Word table is so different from the Excel sheet that this method is practically worthless, especially for larger or more complex spreadsheets. For example, the individual cells are frequently expanded to two rows even for simple numbers. In addition, the size of the table frequently exceeds the page size of the MS-Word document. These MS-Word tables are extremely cumbersome to modify, requiring individual cell-by-cell adjustment. If complicated, the tables are so greatly mis-shapen that one cannot grab, move or modify the table, and it is entirely unusable. In these instances, I've taken to pdf-ing the Excel sheet, converting it to a jpg format, then inserting it as a picture into the Excel document. This has the advantage that a picture is easily scalable, and MS-Word handles picture insertions ten times better than it handles Excel tables. Incidentally, I never have this trouble with tables in PowerPoint or Publisher or (God help us all) WordPerfect. This leads me to believe that these difficulties are actually involved with Microsoft's structural vision of what should be done in MS-Word vs. the market segmentation for Publisher.

    Or possibly, there is some other insertion or linking mechanism that works better. Can you tell me what's true?
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    Re: Inserting Excel Spreadsheets into MS-Word Documents

    Replying to my own question-- I am searching documentation and see the right-click method in MS-Word of choosing the format of an Excel sheet to be pasted into the document. It still doesn't answer the question, because only the picture paste method starts to be usable. Thus we can't link spreadsheets to MS-Word documents, or even have them continue to calculate, because the formatting of pasted documents is so poor that it takes hours to produce a roughly equivalent MS-Word table. I also tried inserting an OLE Excel object, but find the formatting problem remains. So I've searched high and low through the documentation trying to get an acceptable method to do this, but haven't yet found one. Is there some smart user out there who knows a work-around method? Thank you.... Bruce Isaacson

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    Re: Inserting Excel Spreadsheets into MS-Word Documents

    My suggestions,
    1. The sheet P&L Cons has three sections; put them on separate tabs.
    2. With BOTH the Excel file and a blank Word document open, insert three blank pages into the word document then select LANDSCAPE orientation.
    3. In Excel, select only the used table cells of the first tab (do not select the whole worksheet). Copy.
    4. On the first sheet of the Word document select Paste Special --> Paste Link --> MSO Excel Worksheet Object

    You can update the tables in the Word document by right clicking them and selecting Update Links.
    Ben Van Johnson

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