You are probably not rounding, but formatting to 4 decimal places. Formatting keeps the complete accuracy and that's what gets
transferred to Word.
One way: use =TEXT(YourNumber,"#,##0.0000") or a similar format. That makes it text (as the name suggests) and will be transferred
as such to Word.

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"Kristel" wrote in message ...
|I have a document in Word that I am using a spreadsheet in Excel to populate.
| But, although I have the numbers in my Excel spreadsheet set up to round to
| four places, when it merges that cell to Word, it is giving it 10 places.