Excel Word interop issue with different language versions

Dear Community,

We are currently running into Excel <> Word interoperability issues when using different language versions of Office 2013.

Basically, we want to include tables from Excel as linked objects in our Word files. The field code of our linked objects look like the following (for Word 2013 U.S. version):

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\SomePath\\Spreadsheet.xlsx" "Sheet!R1C1:R5C7" \a \p }

Note the RC-referencing. However, the same word file does not work in the German version of Word 2013 -- it seems that the German office requires ZS-referencing instead, i.e.

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\SomePath\\Spreadsheet.xlsx" "Sheet!Z1S1:Z5S7" \a \p }

Unfortunately, the A1-style of referencing does not work (which should be universal).

Anybody ever encountered this madness and has a reasonable solution? Thank you very much in advance!