Cindy, the "Copy as Picture" in Excel worked great! In fact, I think I'm
going to put that on my toolbar!

Thanks so much.
Ed

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi Ed,

I regularly copy tables created in Excel and paste them into Word. I
have a
macro which creates a text box and pastes in the Excel bit using
Selection.PasteSpecial Link:=False, DataType:=wdPasteOLEObject,
Placement:=wdInLine, DisplayAsIcon:=False

But it seems the link back to the original Excel file still exists.

As Stephanie explains, you're creating an OLE object, which is why Excel
is
opening. She's assuming you still want to work with the table; I get the
impression all you want is to show the table. In the latter case, you
should
try pasting in a picture format (you may also want to do the copying in
Excel
in picture format, which you can do by holding down SHIFT when you click
on
the Edit menu, then you can select "copy as picture")

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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