
Once, you select the object you would like to insert, hit OK. In our case, we’ll go ahead and insert a PowerPoint presentation. In the C reate New option, pick the required Object type to embed into your Word document. In the Ribbon, hit the Insert tab and select Object. That said, you are able add additional file types into your document, such as: Presentations, diagrams and another documents. So far, we have learnt how to embed Excel workbooks and ranges into Microsoft Word. Adjust the range height and width to fit your table into your Word page and edit the content as needed. In your Word document, double click on the Excel table you inserted before. Then hit the Link to File and Display as Icon checkboxes, to embed a link to your file into your doc. Using the Browse button, navigate and point to the file stored in your computer that you would like to attach. Navigate to the place in your document that you want to place the link to your workbook. In a similar fashion you can embed a link to your Excel file into your Word document: Select the Create from file and browse to your excel document which has to be inserted. Click on the Insert in the ribbon and select Object in the Text section. Open your Word document, where your Excel spreadsheet has to be placed.
Now, go ahead and open the Word document in which you would like to insert the Excel range, then right click and hit paste or go ahead and press CTRL+V.
Select the area / range that you would like to add into Word, right click and hit Copy or press C TRL+C.For a “live” spreadsheet option, kindly scroll down. Note: This option will allow you to embed a screenshot of your spreadsheet, which you won’t be able to later on edit/modify. The entire step-by-step details can be found in the following video we created: If you are looking at inserting Word files into Excel, take a look at our tutorial on embedding Word objects into a spreadsheet.
I assumed you are using Windows, but just in case, i have added some pointers for MAC users below. I have a nice spreadsheet with some sales information that i would like to insert into a Word document that i am authoring. Working on a quarterly operational report for management. Applicability: Excel 2019, 2016 and earlier versions Windows 7, 8& 10 and macOS.