Any printed item can be called a document. Usually, related to computer applications, a document referrs to a word processing output, while a spreadsheet referrs to output from a spreadsheet program, like MS Excel.
If it is linked then when the data in the spreadsheet is changed, that change will show in the Word document. If it is embedded, then changes in the spreadsheet will not have any effect on the figures in the Word document.
Document how to use the spreadsheet.
A Word doc with a linked spreadsheet is usually called a 'Compound Document'.
It is still an Excel spreadsheet. The workbook does not change, just because it is linked to another document to form a compound document.
yes
Sure. Why not?
It is called a spreadsheet or a worksheet.
Select the data in the spreadsheet and copy it. Go to the Word document and in the Edit menu pick Paste Special and Paste Link. A link will be established so that when the spreadsheet changes, the data in the word processing document will also change.
Is an external excel spreadsheet linked into a word document considered a compoound document in the microsoft enviroment?
For example, a spreadsheet object can be brought into a word-processing document. Any time the spreadsheet object is updated in the original spreadsheet software, the object is automatically updated in the destination document.
The spreadsheet does not change. The combination is called a compound document because of definition.
A spreadsheet.