Word 2013 Crashes on Links

Hello Bob,

1. How exactly are you trying to link Excel with Word?

2. What type of links are you copying and pasting into Word?

3. Does the issue occurs with specific document?

4. Check if you’re able to insert links other than from Excel?

Reply with required details and we would be happy to assist.

Thank you.

I just want to tell you have disappointed I am in Word 2013.  

The crashes.   Here's what I was doing.

• Source of Link, Excel 2013 spreadsheet
• Destination of Link, Word 2013 doc (*.docm, because of a few macros)
• I would highlight and copy the text in Excel
• Paste special, Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet paste link in Word
• I would format the object "Layout, Advanced, top&bottom"  Then "Position, alignment center of margin, vertical 'absolute position' paragraph, lock anchor and move with check, overlap unchecked"
• sometimes it would crash.

Now the frustrating part.  I have a 70 page document and I went to check and change a link and not one of the links was working.  Every bloody link in the spreadsheet has turned into a picture. 

What's the use of having links if they won't stay linked? 

I opened the spreadsheet and then opened the document and I found one link that worked.  

What's up with the program.  I have never ever had this problem with WordPerfect.  I have written a number of technical items in WP linked to Excel spreadsheets and never had a link break.  

It just seems every time I replace / repair the link in Word, it breaks again.

Can you offer any advice?

thank you

Sorry for the delay in reply.

Does the issue occurs with specific Excel files?

How many links does the document contains?

Check if the issue occurs with specific document.

Also provide us the event viewer logs which will display the application name which is causing the problem.

Refer to the link below for more information on how to use Event viewer in Windows 7:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/What-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer

Thank you.

Yes, one excel file I created.

No event logs found

The Word Doc contained about 40 links.

I went back and rewrote the document in Word Perfect and linked it to my excel file and no problems.  I bought my customer a copy of the WP X6 and built a template for him for him so he could use it at a later date for other customers.   I can't be giving my customers unstable or templates that aren't dependable.   Also showed my customer how to do some formula's inside the template that would pull info from the excel file.

Word is such a crappy program, while excel is very good (and much better since you put pivot tables in it).   The VBA could better.   (I like the programing tools in WP)