Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Using Excel Charts in Word Documents

To create a quick chart from scratch in Word, click Chart in the Illustrations group on the Insert tab on the Ribbon in Word. All 2007 Office release applications share a common charting engine, so—provided you’re working with a Word 2007 document format (as opposed to a Word 97–2003 document)—you’ll be greeted by the same Insert Chart dialog box you might see in Excel:

After you select a chart type from this gallery, you will arrive at a worksheet containing dummy data values for your chart (the worksheet will be titled Chart in Microsoft Office Word – Microsoft Excel). Edit those values, and then close the worksheet ...