Multiple Excel Objects in a Word Document

[tonycm1]

I have a Word 2003 document that is an annual report that has about 20 Excel Objects copied into it (copy from Excel, Paste-Special-Excel Worksheet Object in Word)... the problem I find is that everytime I have to copy another table into the word document, the document size increases quite a bit. The result is that I have a word document that is almost 10MB in size because of these 20ish tables all coming from the same excel workbook. Is there a way (in Word) to simply import the Excel workbook once and have access to all the tables?