WD: Excel Object Pasted As Hyperlink Is a Single Link

 Last reviewed: February 18, 1998
Article ID: Q155904
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you paste a selection of several cells into Word using the Paste As Hyperlink command, the contents of each cell appear as separate hyperlinks. However, the entire object is actually a single hyperlink. For example, when you display fields codes, you see something like this: 

   {HYPERLINK "c:\\My Documents\Book1.xls" \l "sheet1!C2"}
Where C2 in this example represents the last cell in the range of data in Microsoft Excel. Note that this is a single cell reference and not a reference to a range of cells. This cell reference can point to any cell, A1 or Z255 for example, and depends on the amount of data that you copy and paste.

CAUSE

When the information is copied from Microsoft Excel and placed on the clipboard, it is pasted as one large selection. Therefore, when you paste this selection into Word, it pastes as a single object.

WORKAROUND

To create hyperlinks to individual cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, copy and paste a single cell from Microsoft Excel to Word.

Additional query words: 8.0 word8 word97
Keywords : word8 word97 macword98
Version : 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb

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Last reviewed: February 18, 1998
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