To get the opportunity the select the connection method, click on the Office
button and then on Word Options and then on Advanced and scroll down the to
the General section towards the bottom of the dialog and check the box
against the item "Confirm fiel format conversion on open".

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
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In Word there is a problem with maintaing the number format used in Excel.
(There doesn't seem to be a problem with the date format.) I am surprised
by
this because this problem doesn't exist in the older versions of MS Word!!
What happened? I don't like the idea of having to fix or adjust all the
data
fields!!

There seems to be a few work around solutions, but why should I bother
with
those solutions when the older versions of Word and Excel worked fine
together?
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Thanks