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Its really an Excel worksheet linked into the Word document.

There was a time when Microsoft could not stop demonstrating embedding Excel documents into Word.

All manner of different options were available with plenty of acronyms thrown in to either impress an audience or confuse them.

It worked great in Microsofts carefully rehearsed demos but not so much in the real world.

If embedding worked at all, it was often very slow or unstable.

If you gave up on embedding worksheets as a bad joke, heres an opportunity to try again.

Any changes to the worksheet will appear in the linked Word document too.

There are others but this is the simplest and (mostly) easiest to work with.

But first lets see how linked worksheets appear in the real world.

In Microsofts world, worksheets are pasted in perfectly and work first time.

Ha.

The top line is wrapped across two lines and each data row height is wrong.

This happens almost inevitably when Paste Linking a worksheet.

Its a normal Word table with the Table Tools available on the ribbon.

Thats why they are in grey when editing the table; to indicate they are linked data.

Use the Table Design tab to totally change the look, regardless of your initial Paste selection.

You can also change formatting of individual rows, columns or cells.

Just one example, weve changed the text color and enlarged the text in a single row.

A detailed and independent look at Windows 10, especially for Microsoft Office.

Were not sure why because the right-aligned column doesnt have the same problem.

Do that by right-clicking on any data element in the table and choosing Update Link.

That will help ensure that you know which version of the worksheet is showing in a Word document.

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