If you use Microsoft Word and Excel a lot, you know that an Excel spreadsheet gives you many more options than a simple table in Word. However, you often want to integrate the Excel spreadsheet into another document such as a Word file. Fortunately, inserting Excel projects into Word is quick and easy. The first step is to decide whether you want to insert the Excel spreadsheet into Word or link the two documents. We’ll explain the difference between these two methods and show how you can easily import and use your Excel projects in Word.
You can either embed (link) an Excel spreadsheet in Word or simply copy it into Word.
Inserting your Excel spreadsheet into Word using copy and paste is quick and easy. The disadvantage is that if you then want to customize the Excel table later in your Word document, you can only use the commands available in Word.
If you want to continue using Excel functions to edit your table, you should link the Excel worksheet in Word. This way you ensure that changes in your original Excel file are automatically inserted and updated in Word.
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Office OnlineOneDrive with 1TB24/7 supportInserting your Excel spreadsheet into Word using copy and paste is the easiest way to connect the two data sources. Follow these simple steps:
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Embedding an Excel spreadsheet in Word requires a few additional steps. However, by linking directly to your Excel data, any later changes will be automatically updated in the embedded version in the Word document. If you want to embed an Excel worksheet in Word, simply follow our detailed instructions with screenshots, or see the short version further below.
By linking your Excel spreadsheet in Word, you ensure that changes in your Excel table are automatically transferred to your Word document and displayed there. However, the changes you make to the table in Word are not automatically transferred to the Excel spreadsheet. So always remember to copy these changes to the linked original document. The same applies if you link an Excel table in PowerPoint or insert a Word document into PowerPoint.
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In Word, tables prove useful in the most diverse situations, and you have several options for creating them. You can either use the table templates provided by the Microsoft tool, or you can design your own. This enables you to improve your reports, invoices or the performance of household tasks. Even data from Excel can be integrated as a table into a Word file.
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Do you want to show an Excel spreadsheet in your PowerPoint presentation, but don’t know how to insert an Excel file into PowerPoint? Whether you want to create a new Excel spreadsheet in PowerPoint, edit it later or insert it as a picture, the presentation software has a feature for each one of these options. We’ll explain the differences and show you how to proceed, step by step.
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