suddenly not able to insert an excel file into a word document

[Guest]

someone at work has been inserting excel files into word docs, but over the
past couple weeks this has stopped working. it doesnt seem to be able to
find anyway to open the excel doc. at one point, it kept saying a converter
was needed, but tried downloading that, and it still didnt help! any ideas?
i cant find any pc's here that will allow what she has been doing for years.

 

[Guest]

normally, when you open Word, you must see at the Tool bar the sign of a
board with the excel mark on it. If you can’t see it, try the “Add more
buttons†options. (at least that’s what I am doing when using Word 2000.)
Hope that was useful to you!

 

[Guest]

Thanks that was a good guess, but it still doesn't fix the problem. She is
going in thru "INSERT" then selecting "FILE", then chooses the excel doc to
insert, but then a screen comes up saying "Select the encoding that makes
your document readable. Text encoding: Windows (Default), MS_DOS, Other
encoding." and all the text from the spreadsheet shows up as little boxes
and Ys and other gibberish...no matter which choice i make. On one pc, i get
a message that says to install a converter from MS Office 2000, but the
others go straight to this box of gibberish! ANY IDEAS????!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

Well, to be honest I can’t figure it out…It looks like she has entered a
protection code or something… You can still try this; open the excel file you
want to insert into your word document, select copy and then paste to the
document. It’s not the best solution and probably the excel file will need
some kind of modification to “fit†into the word document, but I suppose it
is a temporary way to do your work until we find the answer!

 

[Guest]

I’ve been thinking… you wrote that you tried to download a converter and
still didn’t work out. Was it Excel32.cnv? Usually, text converters are
already in the PC. Go to C/ Program Files/ Common Files/Microsoft Shared/
Textconv. Do you see that converter there? If not, maybe that’s the problem.
Give me an email address where I can send you my converter. Remember though
that I use Windows 98 Second Edition and Word 2000. If you use something
else, it might not be compatible, but still you have nothing to lose. If you
are a Mac user, then there is a specific procedure to activate the converter,
so let me know. Sorry that I don’t have any more ideas! I’ve been trying all
morning with my Excel files, tried all options, but it works fine at my PC,
so I can’t think of anything really smart!

 

[Guest]

You can get this to work???? I cant find a pc over here that will let me do
this now for some reason. I did go look for that excel converter, but I
don't seem to have it. If you could send it to (e-mail address removed), that
would be great. The file wont have any viruses will it? this is for work
and I really dont want to upset the security folks! i wish this would let me
show a screen shot of what i'm getting...this is soooo frustrating!

thanks for ALL your help!!!!

 

[Graham Mayor]

The Excel converter has been disabled for security reasons by one or more of
Microsoft's updates. You can still use the old converter if present, and if
you don't have it, it is linked from the downloads page of my web site. You
then insert > file set the display to 'all files' > pick the excel sheet,
you will then be asked which converter to use - choose Excel and OK the
warning message that follows.

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