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bjjnova - 02 Mar 2007 16:38 GMT

Earlier versions of Word have not allowed long Excel spreadsheets,
whether embedded or linked, to traverse multiple Word pages. Is that
still true in 2003? 2007? Anyone know if that limitation will
continue?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 02 Mar 2007 18:06 GMT

An OLE object cannot span multiple pages in any version of Word.

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> Earlier versions of Word have not allowed long Excel spreadsheets,
> whether embedded or linked, to traverse multiple Word pages. Is that
> still true in 2003? 2007? Anyone know if that limitation will
> continue?

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CyberTaz - 03 Mar 2007 17:31 GMT

... And it isn't peculiar to Word - there are any number of programs whose
document structure cannot enable OLEs to span a page break. If you need to
do this you can insert the Excel content as a Word Table rather than as an
object, but if that isn't acceptable some other software is your best bet -
I wouldn't expect to see that enabled in Word until there is a dramatic
revision (or replacement) of OLE in Windows.

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

On 3/2/07 1:06 PM, in article eEXjiaPXHHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,

> An OLE object cannot span multiple pages in any version of Word.

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