How to make Word past a range with "Past link:" as with "Past:"?

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Hello
I'm trying to past an Excel range of cell values in to a Word table with a
link to the Excel range of cells, but Word pasts the range in to only one
cell. I select a range with the same orientation, configuration and same
number of cells in the Word table, click "Past special" and "Past link:" for
this. Word 2003 sp2 pasts the range in to a range of the same size if I
click "Past special" and "Past:", not "Past link:". How to make Word past
with "Past link:" in to a range (not to only one cell) as with "Past:"?

 

[Cooz]

Hi Dmitry,

You cannot do this. Check Tools | Options | tab View | Field codes to see
why: the range of cells will have become one field. You cannot spread one
field over multiple cells in a Word table.

Perhaps you can make up the data in Excel the way you like to have it in
Word, and paste this in Word - in other words replace the entire Word table
by the Excel table. Probably you may have thought of this as well.

Good luck,
Cooz

 

[Dmitry Kopnichev]

Thanks for your reply.
The existing Word table is too large to recreate in Excel.