Issues with Excel tables in Word

[QuasidodoJr]

I'm a technical writer working on instruction manuals. I use excel spreadsheet tables for features and parts lists. Unfortunately, my tables keep giving me trouble.



I will go to modify one table on a specific page and when I open the table to edit, it will change itself into a separate table from a different page. If I try to print the page, it will also print the wrong table. The only way I found to correct the problem was to delete the "broken" table and re-create the data. Which is certainly far too time consuming.

If anyone has any ideas or any fixes for this problem, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

EDIT: Ooops! Sorry! Newbie mistake. Can someone please move this question to the Tables sub-forum? Thank you!

[macropod]

Hi QuasidodoJr,

Since you're aparrently referring to embedded Excel worksheets, there's no need to move the post.

Your post suggests you actually have a number of 'tables' in the same Excel worksheet that you've embedded in the Word document. That may be behind your problem.

Without seeing the document (you can attach one to a post via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab), it's hard to give specific advice. However, you might do better to maintain a separate Excel workbook and link the various posrtions of your Word document to the corresponding portions of the Excel workbook. That way, all of the Excel editing can be done in Excel, quite independently of Word.