Edit Chart Data in Microsoft Word 2013 Not Popping Up

Hello Morgan,

Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query.

Do you find this issue with a specific Word document?

Let’s try creating a new Word document with charts and check if it works as expected.

Reply with necessary information to check and help you better.

Thank you.

It sounds like the data window might be opening off the screen or behind something. Is it possible that the data window was opened on a two-monitor system once?

Can you try opening the data window in Excel?

I am using a two monitor system.

I can "Edit in Excel", but then I don't know how to change what cells are included in the chart.

I don't have an excel button show up on the task bar.

I can see excel running in the Task Manager, but there's no evidence anywhere, and no way to force the program to be visible.

Thanks, though.

Hello Morgan,

Thank you for your reply.

You may uncheck the DDE option in Excel by following the steps below and check if it resolves the issue.

Open Excel, File, Options, Advanced, when you scroll down under General uncheck the box ‘Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange’ (DDE)

I hope the above information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.

Hello Morgan,

Thank you for your reply.

You may uncheck the DDE option in Excel by following the steps below and check if it resolves the issue.

Open Excel, File, Options, Advanced, when you scroll down under General uncheck the box ‘Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange’ (DDE)

I hope the above information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.

The box was already unchecked. I think it may have to do with using the word doc as a template and all of the "Save As" getting it gunked up... I'm not sure though.

It looks like it's gotten worse.  Now when I try to save the files I get three pop-up windows displaying EndNote errors.

EndNote is a third-party add-in and perhaps there is a problem with it.  Try disabling it.

See the KnowledgeBase article "How to troubleshoot problems that occur when you start or use Word" at:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/921541?p=1