Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 5, 2025)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
Word allows you to embed a worksheet directly from Excel. The link established between your document and the Excel worksheet can be updated whenever you desire. To embed a worksheet in your document, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Paste Special dialog box.
When you later want to modify the Excel worksheet, simply double-click your mouse on it within your document. You can edit it using tools you are familiar with in Excel, and you can then click your mouse outside of the worksheet (elsewhere in your Word document) to return to regular Word editing. Any changes you make to the embedded spreadsheet are automatically saved in the original Excel spreadsheet.
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2025-02-05 06:38:12
jamies
While the tip is to insert the workSHEET,
note the link that will get access to the entire workbook,
BUT beware of using SaveAs to save a modified version of the workbook -
the link will show text indicating the name of the workbook that the link was created for,
but the hyperlink that is not actually shown is (usually) to the version of the file that was last saved !
So when clicking on the displayed hyperlink description,
you may not get shown the content of the indicated file !
Same happens with all links, not just those for workbooks.
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