Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Inside Out

Using Excel Charts in Word Documents

You can insert an Excel chart into a Word document by copying it from the Clipboard or by choosing Insert, Object in Word. If you paste an Excel chart from the Clipboard into your Word document, the chart arrives in picture format. The smart tag menu that appears gives you the option of switching to an embedded chart object or to a chart object linked to the source file.

As with an Excel table, you can choose Edit, Paste Special in Word to control the format in which your chart is pasted into Excel. If you copied your chart from a chart sheet in your Excel document, your format choices are Microsoft Excel Chart Object, Picture, Bitmap, and Picture (Enhanced Metafile). Pasting the Object format embeds the entire ...