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Most of the time, Microsoft Office applications work fairly well together. For instance, you might be creating a report for a presentation, and you need to include a chart along with the report. Fortunately, you can embed an Excel chart directly within a report you happen to be creating in Word. This is done in the following manner:
Figure 1. The Paste Special dialog box.
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2018-05-10 15:48:54
Mano
When you embed an Excel 2016 spreadsheet into a Word 2016 document and you intend to edit the values on the Excel spreadsheet, should you be editing from Excel or by clicking on the “table/spreadsheet” from within Word? I usually make any chart updates from Excel.
And if you do the later, have you ever encountered issues on a Microsoft Surface where the Spreadsheet once edited reduces to about 1/4 the original size? Thoughts ?
2017-11-25 10:10:13
Jim Foote
What happens when copies of the Excel and Word documents are transferred to a flash drive?
Does the link in the Word document to the Excel chart follow suit?
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