RE: Problems with converting data held in an Excel spreadsheet to Word

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From: mark Gray (markGray_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:46:01 -0700

Cindy

Thanks for the update. Forgive me if this is very basic, but how do I paste the information without a link, all I am doing it using the copy/paste commands within Excel and Word.

I can use the Paste Special command, but which option should I choose ??

Regards 

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Mark
"mark Gray" wrote:
> I am using MS Office 2000 Professional, and have a lot of mail merge documents where I have all the required data in an Excel spread***.  I then try and complete mail merges on a selection of the data.
> 
> I then copy and paste the spread*** into a word document to reformat the data, and then complete the merge.
> 
> However, word ignores the reformatting, and the deselected data, and constantly brings up the warning 'too few data items'.
> 
> This causes the mail merge to fail.  As a fallback I use another PC with an earlier version of Office, and this procedure works perfectly, however this is time consuming and eventually these other PCs will be phased out.
> 
> Solutions to this problem would be very weelcome.
> 
> Thank you
> -- 
> Mark
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