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Create a new file and insert as an object 1. Place the mouse cursor where you want to create the object. Select an object to create from the Object Type list. Select the Display as icon check box. Which can then be opened by double clicking it, opens as Document in Document file. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Learn more. Asked 8 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 30k times. Press the "From File This works in MS Word on Windows. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. An icon is inserted into the Word document. If you double click the icon you will notice that an Excel Workbook opens separate to the word Document. This is not linked it is embedded in the Word file.

So if your Word document was kb and the Excel was kb then the Word file would become kb. With this method you are not embedding the Excel Workbook; rather you are linking to it. If you intend to send the file to someone then you would need to include the Excel Workbook. The advantage of linking is that the file size of the original Word document file size does not change.

The disadvantage is that both files and locations are necessary for the link to work. This is very effective if your Excel file is on a shared network drive. Resize the object to fit on the page.

It is an image link to the file at its location. Note: If you were to convert this word file to a PDF the hidden Excel file will not be included in the PDF file only the image object of the last spreadsheet will show. You would need to press F9 key or double click the object to see the changes.

The Word file and the workbook would need to be sent together. If you wish to link specific data then a better way would be to just link the data that you need. Not the whole workbook. Hi Trevor, Issue I'm having is with method 4. When I try to email the linked files it seems to destroy the link.

The nature of this project is that users need to be able to access linked Word and Excel files and the changes should only appear on their own documents.