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JennyTan
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May 22, 2026

a table but not really a table

I have this word document that has an addin that linked to financial system in terms of extracting values.  

so usually we will create an excel report with excel table in the financial system where it will populate the figures in the excel table and then in the word document, we just use the addin to extract the entire table into the document - we called it a table object.  It is not an embedded excel table instead it behaves just like inserting a word table in the document.  The benefit of this is user just need to refresh or update the extraction parameters to update the figures in this table object.

so now, we need have a weird request where it is not possible to do this excel table but we can extract exact amount from the system instead - they called it an amount object.  this amount object can also be refresh and updated like table object.   BUT we cannot insert an amount object as "nested" in a table drawn in word document.  In usual case, amount object is inserted in text content....like CEO words about performance of business in an annual report.

I need to be create a "table like" visual in word document so that I can insert several amount objects.  The final visual of these will look as if I use a table.  Like below:

As long as it is inserted as a table, I can insert amount object in the respective "cells".

Does anyone have a creative way to do this?

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