I'm having a problem with pasting links from excel to a word document. I'm
using Office 2003

I have a budget in Excel and I'm putting together an executive summary in
word. I want to link all of the numbers in word to the excel workbook.

For example, I want to write:
"Expenses in the Americas are xx%."
where the "xx" is a number linked from excel.

I copy the cell that has the number in excel, go to word and choose paste
special. I then select the paste as link option and choose unformatted text
from the list box.

This works fine except that in addition to the number, additional spaces are
also inserted. I can delete these, but they come back when I update the
link. So the sentence ends up looking like:
"Expenses in the Americas are xx%."

How do I get a link to just the number and not the extra spaces?

Thanks in advance for any help.