open Excel in Word w/o file conversion rigamarole?

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I have always opened an Excel spreadsheet in Word
by just opening the file. Now, I get a "file conversion"
choice, none of which allows me to just open the Excel
spreadsheet as a table, which it did before.

So, how can I just open the spreadsheet in Word,
without all the rigamarole? (I suspect some security
reason for not being able to do what I want. We
recently upgraded to Word 2003, but it worked
fine 'til last Friday. Uffdah!)

TIA