It should not need adding to the registry. The file itself is available for
download from my web site. Microsoft did indeed remove this (and others)
filter in an overreaction to criticisms about their software's lax security.

Although Excel does not appear in the file type list, you can select all
files and pick the excel file from the list and the filter will activate.

The registry patch to make it work for *exporting to Excel* is:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Text
Converters\Export\Excel]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft
Shared\\Textconv\\excel32.cnv"
"Name"="Excel"
"Extensions"="xls"

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




JasonJ1052 wrote:
Just tried it, it didn't work. I suspect it also need to be added to
the Registry along with the other converters, and I do not have
authorization to edit the registry on work computers.

I have however found that this converter was removed by Microsoft,
apparently due to security concerns, so it is not even in the
Resource Kit anymore.

The feature *did* exist prior to 2003, as I have been teaching MS
Office classes for 8 years and the functionality was there up to the
point we installed 2003 earlier this year.

I expect on the one machine it does work on they did not install the
way everyone else did. Instead of unintalling XP and installing 2003,
they likely did an upgrade, thus preserving the converters already
installed on the system.

One more example of destroying software in the name of security.

Thanks for you help in finding the name of the conversion file!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

You should find this file in the TextConv folder on hard drive of
the one computer that "does it correctly". Just copy it to the
corresponding folder on the other computers' hard drives.

JasonJ1052 wrote:
Sorry, I meant Insert/File, not File/Insert.

I will investigate this "Excel32.cnv" but I have yet to see this
listed in any of the help files regarding this problem.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


There is no Insert command under the File menu, so the problem
could be that you're doing it wrong. Once you figure out how to
insert a file, then inserting an Excel file into Word is not a
problem if the Excel32.cnv text converter is installed.

JasonJ1052 wrote:

This is a fine fine solution, to copy and paste, however, why not
instead fix the problem where Word will not let you do
"File/Insert" and then insert an Excel file?
I know there is a conversion tool that should recognize the file
as Excel and convert it to a Word table, however we have over 100
computers where I work and only 1 does it correctly.
Instead of a work around, is there a way to actually FIX the
problem?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:



Start Word and Excel. In Excel, open the worksheet, select the
cells you want to insert into Word, and press Ctrl+C to copy the
cells to the Windows clipboard. Switch to Word. Click on Edit
| Paste Special | Paste: As: Picture or Microsoft Excel Object |
OK. If you paste as a picture into Word, the resulting Word
file will be smaller, but the contents of the Excel picture
cannot be edited. If you paste as a Microsoft Excel object into
Word, the resulting Word file will be larger, but the Excel
object can be edited from Word by double-clicking on the object.

Daveybau wrote:



I am attempting to insert an excel worksheet into a word
document. I've tried the obvious by using insert, file, etc.,
but that brings me to a box (file conversion) that is
unreadable.

any suggestions? please help!

David