Paste Special

[Dan]

Just installed Office 2008. Tried to past-special a linked excel spreadsheet in Word. All I get in Word is a portion of the spreadsheet. I've done this many times in previous versions of Word. Can't seem to figure it out.

 

[CyberTaz]

Yeah - this is a known bug for which there is no current fix or workaround -
other than pasting as something other than a Link :-(

Take advantage of Word's Help> Send Feedback & stoke the fire a bit. We're
hoping for something positive to be done, but if & when are questions we
can't answer... The more negative feedback MS receives the more likely they
are to address it.

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

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Yeah - this is a known bug for which there is no current fix or workaround -
other than pasting as something other than a Link :-(

There is a way, but I don't like it so much:

Insert>Object>Excel Spreadsheet.

Give it a try, it might suit your needs,


Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Corentin -

How was the show?

There is a way, but I don't like it so much:

Insert>Object>Excel Spreadsheet.

Give it a try, it might suit your needs,


Corentin

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Unfortunately 2008 is still restricted to 5 columns by 10 rows using that
method I had the impression the OP wants to include more content than
that.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Corentin -

How was the show?

Pretty good: Lots of people, lots of questions
A very good edition indeed,

Unfortunately 2008 is still restricted to 5 columns by 10 rows using that
method I had the impression the OP wants to include more content than
that.

Yeah, that's definitively not optimal for everybody, but it's the only
option I know for this kind of thing right now :-\


FYI, the same applies to PpowerPoint. It's an Office 2008-wide issue.

Corentin

 

[CyberTaz]

Pretty good: Lots of people, lots of questions
A very good edition indeed,

Sorry I couldn't be there, but the budget is a bit too tight I hope the
assemblage wasn't too rough on you & the others - I'm sure there were some
"disgruntled" members of the citizenry out to shoot the messengers.

Yeah, that's definitively not optimal for everybody, but it's the only
option I know for this kind of thing right now :-\


FYI, the same applies to PpowerPoint. It's an Office 2008-wide issue.

But at least in Word - not sure of PPt - you can paste as a table rather
than as a spreadsheet & I think the linking works as well if you do... will
have to play with it a bit to refresh my memory. Hopefully the entire OLE
thing will be improved in a [not too distant] future update.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I'm sure there were some
"disgruntled" members of the citizenry out to shoot the messengers.

Not yet :-> Office was just out the door at this point and people were
either coming with Office 2004 questions, or to ask what was new in
Office 2008.

[...]

FYI, the same applies to PpowerPoint. It's an Office 2008-wide issue.

But at least in Word - not sure of PPt - you can paste as a table rather
than as a spreadsheet & I think the linking works as well if you do... will
have to play with it a bit to refresh my memory. Hopefully the entire OLE
thing will be improved in a [not too distant] future update.

Well the problem is not limited to table. It affects charts as well. I
usually never embed tables actually, but I often try to embed Excel
charts in presentations (and why not, in Word documents),

Corentin