Flickering blue circle in a Word document linked to a Excel Document

[soroush.kalantari]

I am used to link excel table to word document Through “paste/Paste Special/ Paste Link/HTML Format. My problem is that sometimes when I work with Word document and Excel document linked to the Word document simultaneously and edit them, Word document show a flickering blue circle and both Excel and Word are very slow, making it very hard to work with them. Can you guide me on this issue?

[macropod]

Presumably, that's because Word is trying to refresh the link while Excel is trying to update itself. The simple solution is to have only the Excel workbook or the Word document open.