Importing Word Files With linked Excel files

I have a word document with linked excel files that appear as linked images in word. When these images are clicked it opens it up in Excel where I can edit them which is fine. However, I would like to import the word doc into adobe indesign with editable tables - not images. Is there a way I can do this?
Importing, exporting, converting. Nothing seems to work besides manually bring in the separate excel doc in one by one but that will be very time consuming at my end.
Thanks for any feedback.

AFAIK, that won't work. InDesign doesn't support OLE.
You may need to convert those Excel tables to Word tables before placing into ID.
Bob

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