Yulia Kovalskaya 

I guess first you should make sure you have this option checked prior to creating your project?

If you already have then you could try saving it as a DOCX, or even play with this app?

https://appstore.rws.com/plugin/122/

gateway.sdl.com/.../communityknowledge

Thanks, Paul! Yes, the "extract contents" option is activated and conversion into DOCX hasn´t helped either. First thing tomorrow I will check out the price of the plugin, looks really promising!

Hello, Johnathan Barker ! 

So the answer is:

MS Word allows embedding of XLS  format, but Trados Studio does not extract it, because it is in the binary format. The Excel object should be embedded as XLSX to resolve this situation.

That sheds some light on the issue! Those who prepare documentation must insert their excel objects as XLSX...well, ok...then,there are 5 options... which one corresponds to the XLSX format?

Many thank in advance!!!

Yulia Kovalskaya said:

which one corresponds to the XLSX format?

Microsoft Excel Worksheet

Thanks, that was sooooo helpful!!!

Dear Paul and Johnathan Barker , 

so I understand that correct embedding of OLEs in word documents from the very beginning can solve this issue. And the correct format is XLSX, right?

Our engineers prepare documentation in DOORs and, yes, when they embed an OLE object the options window I attached above is shown.

So we tried to embed choosing "Microsoft Excel Worksheet" and the output was this:

The table is blank... :(

Hi Yulia Kovalskaya ,

This is the expected result. You inserted an object, an empty one, the default one.

Tto insert an existing Excel spread-sheet, you can do it from Insert > Object > select the tab Create from file, and browse to select the excel file you want to insert:

If you do it, and the selected spread-sheet has some content, Trados will extract that content.

Jesús Prieto , no way! We tried both options: to embed a newly created table and insert another one from an independent excel file. Trados just does not read it....

Hi Yulia Kovalskaya 

Could you please try with the attached Word file?

Word with Excel emebbeded.docx

You should see something like this: