Hard to diagnose on the information you've provided. The technique does work
(in general), so something is not set up correctly in your case.





"rock crushing engineer"
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I have embedded the table as a link and just to check I changed the source
file and the table did not update in word.

"Jezebel" wrote:

Embed the Excel table as a link.


"rock crushing engineer" rock crushing

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I have created a table in excell and inserted it into a word page. I
would
like to table in the word document to update if i change the table in
excell.