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All I am trying to mail merge or use an excel file into a WORD document. I
would am doing this because it is easy to view the excel data in Word than by
view it in Excel. I have successfully done this, but I am having difficult
time figuring out:

How to update the excel file (data source) from the Word document.

need help!
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word will open excel files and make them into tables:
in word- file/open/change Files of Type at the bottom to Excel
But why in the world would anyone want to do that?

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All I am trying to mail merge or use an excel file into a WORD document. I
would am doing this because it is easy to view the excel data in Word than by
view it in Excel. I have successfully done this, but I am having difficult
time figuring out:

How to update the excel file (data source) from the Word document.

need help!

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