Microsoft KB Archive/324373

= Description of additional LINK field switches in Word =

Article ID: 324373

Article Last Modified on 2/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Word 2007
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
Microsoft Word includes two new field switches for the LINK field that are not fully documented in Word Help.



MORE INFORMATION
The following information describes the two new LINK field switches in Microsoft Word.

\u Switch
You use the \u switch when content is paste-linked as Unformatted Unicode Text.

\f Switch
The \f switch causes the linked content to update its formatting in a way that is determined by the parameter. The parameters are shown in the following table.   Parameter  Description

0      Keep Source Formatting. This parameter is used when you are paste-linking text in Word documents and you select to keep source formatting. 1      Unused. 2      Match Destination Formatting. This parameter is used when paste-linking in Word documents and you select to keep destination formatting. 3      Unused. 4      Keep Source Formatting and Link to Excel. This parameter is             used when you are paste-linking content from Excel and you select to keep source formatting. 5      Match Destination Formatting and Link to Excel. This parameter is used when you are paste-linking content from Excel and you select to keep destination formatting.

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Methods and Parameters for the \f Switch
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The PasteAndFormat method does not allow you to specify links. Therefore, there is not a macro equivalent for the \f 0 or \f 2 LINK field switches.

\f 4: If the WordFormatting parameter value is False when you use the PasteExcelTable method, Microsoft Excel data is pasted with Excel formatting (Keep Source Formatting).

The following sample macro inserts a link to an Excel spreadsheet using the /f 4 switch. The example assumes that you have copied Excel data to the clipboard and you are running the macro against a Word document. Note that the RTF parameter indicates an HTML paste, and the WordFormatting parameter indicates that Excel formatting (Keep Source Formatting) is used. Sub PasteExcelFormatted

Selection.PasteExcelTable LinkToExcel:=True, WordFormatting:=False, _ RTF:=False

End Sub This macro code inserts a field similar to the following field:

{LINK Excel.Sheet.8 &quot;Book1&quot; &quot;Sheet1!R1C1:R1C3&quot; \a \f 4 \h}

\f 5 - When you use the PasteExcelTable method, if the WordFormatting parameter value is True, Excel data is pasted with Word formatting (Match Destination Formatting).

The following sample macro inserts a link to an Excel spreadsheet using the /f 5 switch. It assumes that you have copied Excel data to the clipboard and you are running the macro against a Word document. Note that the RTF parameter indicates an HTML paste while the WordFormatting parameter indicates that the Word formatting (Match Destination Formatting) is used. Sub PasteExcelFormatted

Selection.PasteExcelTable LinkToExcel:=True, WordFormatting:=True, _ RTF:=False

End Sub This macro code inserts a field similar to the following field:

{LINK Excel.Sheet.8 &quot;Book1&quot; &quot;Sheet1!R1C1:R1C3&quot; \a \f 5 \h}

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