Using Post List on page, max number of words for excerpt not working

I think I have it, I thought that selecting ‘Excerpt’ would mean it shows the excerpt Ive written, but the way you have it is that it will only work if the post doesnt have a excerpt and instead it shows one from the full copy, so I think this is a bug.

Hi,

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It seems like you haven’t reduced the maximum number of words on your custom page.

Please reduced the max number of words on your custom page

https://prnt.sc/0Szmax5cTvgo

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Hi Michael, thanks for getting back to me, and hopefully you’ll understand what I think the issue is, I’ll use some pics like you have.

So all my posts have excerpts, which I have written in the post admin as per the image below, and I’ll try and match the images up to the posts so you can see it clearly.

https://prnt.sc/7pzWwssDFizG

Then on the page where I am using the ‘latest post’ blocks, you can see that I have set it to ‘excerpt’ and also max number of words to ’10’, but you will see that on the website its still showing the excerpt in full.

So as you can see the City of London walk has an excerpt, and it matches exactly what you see on the website.

https://prnt.sc/xkxlnNtN66BP

But, if I have for example a post without an excerpt as below, and again set the ‘Latest Post’ block to use ‘Excerpt’ and set the maximum words to 10

https://prnt.sc/StDMDeOu0Y8E

and again set the ‘Latest Post’ block to use ‘Excerpt’ and set the maximum words to 10, it then takes text from the main content area ans sets that to 10 words instead, which is no good as in some cases the text at the top of my page isnt supposed to be an excerpt.

https://prnt.sc/dt4HCebl5l1c

Does that make sense? Basically I want the latest posts block to use the excerpt that I have written and I set the number of words for that, rather than taking text from the page itself.