When you need to create a report filled with data and information, make your data more powerful by displaying it in a formatted Microsoft Word document. There are two methods to do this. Either create a link to an Excel worksheet or embed the Excel worksheet into the Word document.
When you insert text into a Word document, the insertion point flashes to let you know where the text will be inserted. If the Overtype mode is on, you will replace the text you type over as you type in your new text.
The information in this article applies to Excel 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2013, and Excel 2010.
![]() How to Link Excel to Word in Excel 2019, 2016 and 2013
Linking an Excel file to a Word document ensures that the Word document is updated every time the data in the Excel file changes.
This works as a one-way link feed that brings the updated Excel data into the linked Word document. Linking an Excel worksheet also keeps your Word file small because the data isn't saved in the Word document.
Linking to an Excel worksheet to Word document has a few limitations:
To insert any part of an Excel worksheet, follow these steps:
Embed an Excel Spreadsheet Object
The process of embedding an Excel worksheet in a Word document is essentially the same as linking to an Excel worksheet. It does require a few extra clicks, but it brings all data from the worksheet into your document, not only the selected range.
There are two ways to embed an Excel sheet in Word. The first is to embed the worksheet as an object. The second is to insert a table.
No code on my mac for text message forwarding. When you embed a worksheet, Word uses the formatting from the Excel worksheet. Make sure that the data in the worksheet looks the way you want it to appear in the Word document.
The Excel worksheet is now embedded in the Word document.
How To Insert Text From File In Word For MacEmbed an Excel Spreadsheet Table
An alternative to this is to insert the Excel worksheet as a table. This inserts the worksheet the same way as if it were embedded as an object. The difference is that it opens a blank Excel worksheet for you to fill out.
Choose this method if you haven't created the Excel file yet.
To insert the Excel worksheet as a table in Word 2010:
Insert Text From File Command
Word Insert Text From File
This opens a blank Excel worksheet that you can fill out with your data. You can either enter new data or paste data from another spreadsheet.
How To Insert Text From File
Why not just insert a regular Word table and fill it out? When you insert and fill out a new Excel worksheet, you have an Excel file that can be updated any time you like. The data in the Word table automatically updates to match the data in the Excel file.
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