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Is an external excel spreadsheet linked into a word document considered a compoound document in the microsoft enviroment?
Sure. Why not?
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A Word doc with a linked spreadsheet is usually called a 'Compound Document'.
The benefit of linking a chart from an Excel worksheet to a Word document is that the chart data will always be current. Excel is spreadsheet software from Microsoft.
To quickly determine if spreadsheet data in a Word document is linked to a source file, right-click on the data and choose "Linked Worksheet Object" or "Linked Excel Chart" if available. If the option to "Edit Links" appears, it indicates that the data is linked to an external file. Additionally, you may see the "Update Link" prompt when opening the document, which further confirms the data’s linked status.
It is still an Excel spreadsheet. The workbook does not change, just because it is linked to another document to form a compound document.
The spreadsheet does not change. The combination is called a compound document because of definition.
If they are linked probably, you should be able to update it automatically.
They allow you to zoom in or out of a worksheet or document, so they are essentially the same.
A worksheet and a word processing document are completely different. A worksheet is a grid and so it has rows and columns. The rows are identified by numbers and the columns by letters. There are row headers down the side and column headers across the top. A word processor has a blank page. It has rulers on the top and on the side and it has margins. It has individual pages with set sizes, whereas a worksheet is a lot larger. You usually type directly into the page of the word processor, whereas you can either type into the formula bar or direct into the cells on a worksheet. It is only when you have a table in a word processing document that it looks a bit more like a worksheet.
You do not really import data from Word, but you can cut and paste from Word to Excel. If you like, you can embed the word document in an Excel worksheet.