Microsoft KB Archive/214188

= WD2000: Excel Object Pasted As Hyperlink Is Single Link =

Article ID: 214188

Article Last Modified on 5/28/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q214188





SYMPTOMS
When you paste a selection of several cells from Excel 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 field codes, you see something like this

{HYPERLINK "c:\\My Documents\Book1.xls" \l "sheet1!C2"}

where C2 represents the last cell in the range of data in 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 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 an Excel worksheet, copy and paste a single cell from Excel to Word.

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