Data link not holding excel merge & center setting

[bbrantleyS8QBB]

When opening drawings up that have an Excel datalink attached, with 'Use Excel Formatting' checked, the notes in Excel that have merge & center applied to them show (see picture) as overlaid on the rows above them. I have created a new datalink both with and without 'Use Excel Formatting' checked/unchecked and the table will not display as set up in excel. Does anyone know a solution for the AutoCAD table to recognize the 'merge & center' function inside Excel?

[droseMNA]

Can you confirm this cell has Text Wrap turned on?   Also, I have used Edit > Paste Special...  (with the Paste Link option) to insert my excel documents (OLE Objects) into AutoCAD.  It has worked great, no problems.

[bbrantleyS8QBB]

Text Wrap has been applied in the excel file. I will suggest we use <pastespec> moving forward vs datalinks as it did hold the look we want. Now I'm curious what the benefit of using datalinks is. Thank you for your reply.