You receive a “Word cannot obtain the data for Word.Document.8.link” error message when you paste text from a Word 2003 document as a link

When you try to paste text from one Microsoft Office Word 2003 document as a link in another Microsoft Word document, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following: Note This error message does not always occur.

To work around this behavior, save, close and then reopen the source document.