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Tried asking this in another newsgroup but they suggested that I come to a
Word Newsgroup to find my answer faster...

Been asked by a user who is looking to create a table in Word to find a way
to get some of the cells to become (like Excel) calculatable (if there is
such a word).

I first thought that copying the cells from a worksheet (with formulae in)
and do a Edit Paste Special MS Excel worksheet object...

It looked like it worked ok, but that was not what the user wanted since
they only wanted one cell to input a figure in, another one to input a
percentage and a third (all in seperate cells in the Word table) which would
display the outcome of the formula (=A1*A2%)...

Also tried a Nested Table, but that is just a copy and paste of the single
cell with no formula or border and so doesn't change when the other cells are
altered.

Are there any other methods? Or am I asking the impossible?

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Put the figure in cell A1
Put the percentage in cell A2 (entered as e.g. 10%)
Put a formula field in A3
{ =A1*A2 }
Update the field (CTRA+A then F9) or use a macro - see example at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Stampie wrote:
Tried asking this in another newsgroup but they suggested that I come
to a Word Newsgroup to find my answer faster...

Been asked by a user who is looking to create a table in Word to find
a way to get some of the cells to become (like Excel) calculatable
(if there is such a word).

I first thought that copying the cells from a worksheet (with
formulae in) and do a Edit Paste Special MS Excel worksheet
object...

It looked like it worked ok, but that was not what the user wanted
since they only wanted one cell to input a figure in, another one to
input a percentage and a third (all in seperate cells in the Word
table) which would display the outcome of the formula (=A1*A2%)...

Also tried a Nested Table, but that is just a copy and paste of the
single cell with no formula or border and so doesn't change when the
other cells are altered.

Are there any other methods? Or am I asking the impossible?



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Ok think I have that, but it can't seem to link with the spreadsheet with the
info on...

I'm trying to have this so that after creating the document it cuts out
Excel altogether...

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Put the figure in cell A1
Put the percentage in cell A2 (entered as e.g. 10%)
Put a formula field in A3
{ =A1*A2 }
Update the field (CTRA+A then F9) or use a macro - see example at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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

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I had assumed you wanted to do all of it in Word, in which case where does
Excel still come in?

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My web site www.gmayor.com
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Stampie wrote:
Ok think I have that, but it can't seem to link with the spreadsheet
with the info on...

I'm trying to have this so that after creating the document it cuts
out Excel altogether...

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Put the figure in cell A1
Put the percentage in cell A2 (entered as e.g. 10%)
Put a formula field in A3
{ =A1*A2 }
Update the field (CTRA+A then F9) or use a macro - see example at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



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I do... The bit that i'm not understanding is after updating a field it comes
up in bold lettering...

'Error! Bookmark not defined.'

Which is why i'm trying to link in Excel... Or is this supposed to happen
and I just need to do something else in Word?


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

I had assumed you wanted to do all of it in Word, in which case where does
Excel still come in?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



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Let's start with a simple table created in Word
Type a number in cell A1 (that'sthe first cell in Word)
in the cell beneath it (A2) type 10%
in the cell beneath that (A3) type CTRL+F9
which will give you {}
between the brackets type =A1*A2
thus {=A1*A2}
Toggle the display ALT+F9 then F9 to update. A3 should show a figure 10% of
the figure in A1
Where is what you are doing differing from this?

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Stampie wrote:
I do... The bit that i'm not understanding is after updating a field
it comes up in bold lettering...

'Error! Bookmark not defined.'

Which is why i'm trying to link in Excel... Or is this supposed to
happen and I just need to do something else in Word?


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

I had assumed you wanted to do all of it in Word, in which case
where does Excel still come in?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



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