Idea Delivered

Idea delivered in recent Studio versions (including recent 2017 cumulative updates) where this works exactly as suggested, across all MS Office file types.

Far more SDL Studio productivity

It is not an additional comment, but a suggestion, based on the experience gained so far: a feature/app? I consider very useful to use, during SDL-based translation, would be a second screen (apart from the PC/laptop one) to display the target file ONLINE concurrently with the progress of the translation. Why? Often, it would be very convenient to see the REAL format of the text to e.g. choose less characters because of restricted space (specially in case of pdf or Excel or Power Point source text), or change the character size etc., in order to save time required for post-processing of the target translation file.
I suggest to use a second screen because splitting the laptop screen in two halves would be very impracticable because of the available space.
Best regards 
Andrzej Szumski, Poland
Type : Freelance Translator

Below: an example