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Mike Byrd
The upside...
For my business, I compile lengthy text documents - always
in portrait orientation and with headings and page numbers
throughout. Sporadically through the document will be
links to an accompanying Excel document containing several
pages of tables of numerical information, each of those
interlinked.
The process is quite handy in that changes to one of the
tables of numerical information are immediately reflected
in the other Excel links and in the document.
The downside...
In each document, there is one page that, due to the
required width of the Excel table, demands that the
Excel "table" be rotated 90 degrees. Simply pasting in
the link always results in the information being presented
in portrait orientation and if "shrunk" to fit the page,
the information becomes so small that it is illegible. If
the link is selected, the "rotate" feature is disabled.
If the Word page is changed to landscape mode to
accommodate the Excel table, the heading and page number
are now "sideways" in the left and right margins of the
page when flipping through the doc's pages in the
desirable "portrait" orientation.
Is there a way to rotate an Excel link? If not, does
Microsoft acknowledge the usefulness of such a feature so
as to consider incorporating it into either a "patch" for
Office XP or to include it in Office 2003 (or whatever the
next pending version is called)?
I've been using Microsoft Office since its inception and
have patiently waited for such a feature... surely would
be nice to know that me and several thousand
other "document builders" using Word have a fix in the
works.
For my business, I compile lengthy text documents - always
in portrait orientation and with headings and page numbers
throughout. Sporadically through the document will be
links to an accompanying Excel document containing several
pages of tables of numerical information, each of those
interlinked.
The process is quite handy in that changes to one of the
tables of numerical information are immediately reflected
in the other Excel links and in the document.
The downside...
In each document, there is one page that, due to the
required width of the Excel table, demands that the
Excel "table" be rotated 90 degrees. Simply pasting in
the link always results in the information being presented
in portrait orientation and if "shrunk" to fit the page,
the information becomes so small that it is illegible. If
the link is selected, the "rotate" feature is disabled.
If the Word page is changed to landscape mode to
accommodate the Excel table, the heading and page number
are now "sideways" in the left and right margins of the
page when flipping through the doc's pages in the
desirable "portrait" orientation.
Is there a way to rotate an Excel link? If not, does
Microsoft acknowledge the usefulness of such a feature so
as to consider incorporating it into either a "patch" for
Office XP or to include it in Office 2003 (or whatever the
next pending version is called)?
I've been using Microsoft Office since its inception and
have patiently waited for such a feature... surely would
be nice to know that me and several thousand
other "document builders" using Word have a fix in the
works.