Hi Rebecca

do you mean "three columns" as in Format / Columns in Word or do you mean a
three column table? also what do you mean by "long" - 5 pages - 500
pages???

Cheers
JulieD

"Rebecca" <Rebecca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I'm using Excel 2003. I have a worksheet where I am trying to insert
> data from a Word 2003 document. This long Word file consists of data in
> three columns. When I copied and pasted the data into the Excel
> worksheet,
> the data pasted neatly -- except for the last 60 rows or so. No matter
> how
> hard I try to copy and paste the remainder, I keep getting an error
> message
> saying this data cannot be inserted. This is incredibly frustrating,
> though
> I'm sure there is a simple explanation, but being new to Excel I am at a
> loss
> as to why this is happening. Could someone please give me a list of
> possible
> reasons why this data cannot be inserted? I have not exceeded the Excel
> row
> limit. I would deeply appreciate your help in this matter.