This comes under the heading of "That's the way it is..."

When you alter the formatting of an embedded object, you are effectively
creating a new local instance of the object that will not update.

Perform your formatting in the original application and the formatting
changes should flow through to your Word document with the update.

Cheers


On 10/2/06 10:31 AM, in article
, "pixiecat"
wrote:

I have several objects pasted in a word doc as linked excel objects. If I
don't format them for layout, they update just fine. If I have to format
them for layout, they don't update anymore. The link still exists, but any
changes to the excel file do not flow through to the word doc. Any ideas?

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