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Linking Excel data to Word docs: Portability?

• I'm using Excel and Word 2007. Created Excel docs, created Word docs, certain cells in the Excel docs have data that must be embedded in the Word docs. This has been discussed here before, but only the method of creating these links (which was my method) but I'm just checking to see if anybody knows how to make this work when you move the document. All the links appear to be hardcoded absolute links to the Excel doc. Works fine on my PC, breaks on yours. Any way to get this functionality to be portable? Bonus: It's clear that my project (there are probably 300 Excel cells that show up in 6 different Word docs) pushes Excel/Word's limits. The excel document is very unstable and freezes/crashes when opening the Word doc. What kind of technology/skillset would be ideally used to accomplish this? Note -- the Word docs have to have consistent formatting (they are used to print client-facing communications) and the process of entering data into the Excel, and then generating the populated Word doc, is being done by extremely nontechnical users.

• Answer:

  Standard database publication tools: web form and a markup processor, or PDF forms being fed from a database backend, or Google Docs mail merge, or ...