excel tables become pictures

[John Smith]

I pasted excel tables to Word 2007. After several rounds of
document editing (not necessary editing the tables), the tables
became pictures and cannot be edited.

What happened?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you copy and paste tables from Excel to Word, that is exactly what is
supposed to happen.
You need to use Paste Special > Excel Worksheet Object to maintain the
option to edit the table (or check the 'paste link' box in the insert object
dialog).

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[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

Graham,

Are you saying that Word tables can spontaneously change into pictures?

Pam

 

[Graham Mayor]

Maybe I misunderstood what the OP meant? I assumed here that the table could
not be edited in Excel. It is but a table, and I know no mechanism whereby
it would turn into a 'picture'.

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[CyberTaz]

How about if it's a SmartArt Object saved in a .doc format?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

I thought the OP was saying that the Excel pastes into Word as a table (an
usual) but after a round or two of editing, he notices that they are images.
My suspicion is that someone is deliberately doing that (copy > paste special
as picture (enhanced metafile)).

Pam

 

[John Smith]

The tables could be edited at first. Then somehow they turned into
pictures and can no longer be edited.

Once the tables have been pasted, they are edited but not pasted.
Thus, I have no clue how the editable tables became pictures.