Article ID: 253160
Article Last Modified on 3/19/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q253160
SYMPTOMS
When you open a Microsoft Word document that contains an object that is linked to a Microsoft Excel worksheet, the resulting object may be resized smaller, the text in the object or the entire object may be "squashed", or the object may be unreadable. For example, a table that should look like the following example
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
may look like one of the following when you open your Word document:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, click to select the Microsoft Excel object, and then press F9 to update it.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: spreadsheet XL2000 WD2000
Keywords: kbbug kbnofix KB253160
