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MatthiasGehrke
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Jul 03, 2020
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LINK in combination with REF

Hello everybody,   I am retrieving some data from Excel-Sheets. For this I am using the LINK field in Word: {LINK Excel.Sheet.12 \\Path\\File.xlsx CellName /t /f 2} So far, this works perfectly. ...
  • Jay Freedman's avatar
    Jul 04, 2020
    This has been a known limitation of Word since... well, forever. Macropod (Paul Edstein) created a macro solution long ago. It was originally posted in the Windows Secrets lounge, which has now been absorbed into AskWoody.com. You can find the discussion and download the zip file from https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/word-fields-and-relative-paths-to-external-files/.

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