Full Section/Table Linking

Hello - I regularly run into an issue with linking that deters me from using the feature at all. I have several large tables throughout hundreds of documents that I would love to link, but doing so on a cell-to-cell basis isn't helpful, because the tables change overall size every year. The only way I can think to make it work would be to insert extra long tables into my destination documents, copy/paste the linked cells from the source, and then delete the extra rows from the destinations. Obviously, this negates the entire purpose of linking, because I would still have to go into each destination document and manually manipulate the table. To get around this issue, we've reverted to just creating primary tables in a workbook, and copying/pasting into our destination documents, without creating any links.

I need the entire table to be linked, and for the number of rows/columns in the destinations to increase or decrease as needed. I've attempted to create a source link by selecting the paragraph that the table is occupying (without clicking into the table), but WDesk doesn't seem to allow this. The other solution I can think of is to be able to link an entire section from one document to another, which would be helpful for many additional reasons.

So two requests - the ability to link a table in the same way that we can link a normal paragraph of text, and the ability to link an entire section from one document to another. Are either of these features being worked on?

Emily Herold

2022年06月16日 20:02

Hi, Dustin! I have reached out to your CSM, who should be reaching out to you shortly about this specifically. I hope you have a good day!

Maddie Nelson

2022年11月04日 20:16

I'm also having this issue - is there a fix for it?

Sally Nguyen

2023年06月06日 13:31

I'm also interested in any updates on this, including the ability to link the whole presentation slide to another document.

Tatiana Nunes

2023年08月17日 00:14

I'm also interested in any updates on this

Perris King

2023年09月13日 16:26

+1. Linking whole tables would be helpful for situations where we need to move cells around within tables and change formatting. Linking whole sections would also be very useful.