You cannot enable a Word OLE object in an Excel 2007 workbook

Consider the following scenario. You insert a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document as a Word OLE object in a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbook. Then, you move the Excel workbook and the Word document to a new location. In this scenario, when you try to enable the Word OLE object, you cannot. Additionally the Document Object menu is not available on the shortcut menu.

If the Excel workbook is saved in the Excel 2007 file format, the OLE link in the workbook is not updated when the workbook and the Word document are moved to a new location.

To work around this issue, use the Excel 97-2003 format (.xls) instead of the Excel 2007 format (.xlsx, .xlsm) to store the Word OLE object.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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