Excel: Pasting Non-Contiguous Range to Microsoft Word

 Last reviewed: July 1, 1997
Article ID: Q83813
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 3.x, 4.x, 5.0, 5.0c
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 3.x, 4.x, 5.0, 5.0a

SYMPTOMS

When you copy a nonadjacent range of cells (a multiple selection) in Microsoft Excel and paste it in a Microsoft Word document, the pasted range will include the cells between the nonadjacent regions. For example, if you copy a region from Microsoft Excel that includes cells A1:A10, C1:C10, and E1:E10, the pasted data will include entire range of A1:E10.

WORKAROUND

To copy a nonadjacent range to a table in Word, do the following:

  1. Copy the first range from Microsoft Excel.

  2. Activate Word and paste the range in Word.

  3. Activate Microsoft Excel, and select the next range to paste.

  4. Activate Word and place the cursor outside the table on the first line.

  5. Paste the data from the Clipboard.

The selected range will be attached to the previously created table.

Additional query words: 3.0 3.00 4.0 4.00 continuous noncontiguous
noncontinuous

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Last reviewed: July 1, 1997
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