If the document is linked then any changes in the original spreadsheet will change in the Word Document. It is also actually possible to create spreadsheet documents with calculations exclusively in Word. There are special functions to do this with tables. Figures won't automatically change like they do in Excel, so after changing figures, you use the F9 key to get the formulas in the Word document to re-calculate. As it is limited in its capabilities and because many people don't even know you can do it, spreadsheets are rarely done exclusively in Word. It is much better to do them in Excel and copy them to a Word document if they are needed in one.
Excel and Word can be integrated. You can have some of the spreadsheet appear as a table in Word. If you set a link between them, then when Excel updates, so will the Word document. Word does have the facilities to do its own calcuations in tables, but they are limited and so Excel is better. So if you want the figures in a Word document and to keep them up to date as they change in the Excel document, then a link is the way to do it. You would copy the data you want in Excel, and then do a Paste Link in the Word 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.
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Is an external excel spreadsheet linked into a word document considered a compoound document in the microsoft enviroment?
Word normally hosts data from Excel. It can display charts that are linked from Excel and will show data from Excel in tables in Word. A Paste Link can be set up, so that if the data changed in the Excel document, it will also change in the Word document.
You can use a hyperlink to link from a Word document to an Excel document. Select the text you want to act as the link and press Ctrl-K. You can then find the excel workbook you want to link to. You can also copy from an Excel document and paste as a hyperlink, using Paste As Hyperlink in the Word document. This can link to a specific point in the Excel Workbook. You can also do a Paste Link to maintain a connection between the two files, so that when there are changes in the Excel workbook, they will be seen in the Word document.
You can copy a table in Excel and paste it into Word. You will lose any formulas, but the resulting values will be retained. You can also link a Word document to a table in Excel, which will allow changes in the Excel table to be maintained in the Word document.
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.
If you do a regular copy and paste, then the chart in the Word document will not change if the data in the Excel spreadsheet does. If you want it to always represent the data as it is the Excel document when it is changed, then you need to link the chart in the Word document to the spreadsheet. You can do it using the Paste Link facility.
Merge brings one to several individual cells from Excel into Word. The formatting in the merged Word document depends on Word, not Excel. If you would like to retain the same formatting as you had in Excel, then format the target location in Word to match the cell from Excel.
It is still an Excel spreadsheet. The workbook does not change, just because it is linked to another document to form a compound document.
It can be called embedding. Depending on how it is done, it can also be called linking if it is done in such a way that if the chart in the Excel document changes, so will the one in the Word document.