Red,
When you paste Excel cells into a Word page, you can do it in more than one way. Look at
Paste Special, in Word.
If you paste it as a Microsoft Excel object, it will look just as it did in Excel. The user
will be able to type into the cells, but only after double-clicking it, to put it into edit
mode. They must have Excel installed to be able to do that. Be aware that the entire
workbook is embedded in the Word document, increasing its size, and exposing all of the
workbook to the Word user.
The rest of these options will paste only the part you copied:
If in the paste special, you choose formatted text, it will create a Word table and put the
stuff in it. It will look similar to Excel, and it can be formatted (fonts, sizes, colors,
etc). The user can change the cells just as with any Word table. See the Table menu item.
If you choose unformatted text, it'll go in with tabs. It will be editable. You may have
to set tab stops to get the columns to line up as they should. You won't like it.
If you choose bitmap, it will look like it did in Excel, but the user won't be able to
change it, except for the size. It's a picture of the part of the sheet you copied.
If you choose one of the picture (metafile) formats, if will look similar to Excel, and also
won't be editable. It's still really a picture.
If you choose HTML, it will be a Word table, similar to choosing formatted text. Editable.
I'm not sure which one of these you get when you do a plain paste. The Paste special
options vary slightly, I think, with the release of Excel and Word.
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