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Spreadsheets in Word (Mac)
I use Word (standard version) to produce invoices, just basic word documents with an embedded excel spreadsheet.
When I do this on my Windows PCs, I can edit the spreadsheets from inside Word and choose which cells to show in the document.
When I do this on my Mac, editing the spreadsheet takes me to the full version of Excel, and I have no way of changing the visible area when back in Word.
This is a real pain, as I'll often need to add rows to a table in an existing document, but these rows won't be visible and I can't find a way to show them!
Can anyone give me any advice on this?
Thanks!
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I do not have the Mac version.
Workaround:
If this were happening to me, I would, after the editing, remove the table from the Word document and paste in or insert the new information.
In Word for Mac, embedded Excel spreadsheets cannot be edited inline as they can in Word for Windows. Double‑clicking the object always launches the full Excel application, and the visible cell range cannot be adjusted directly within Word. This behavior reflects a platform limitation documented by Microsoft.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/linked-objects-and-embedded-objects-0bf81db2-8aa3-4148-be4a-c8b6e55e0d7c
