Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Plain & Simple

Inserting Microsoft Excel Data

Microsoft Excel is a great tool for collecting and analyzing data, but the information contained in an Excel worksheet is often more easily understood when it’s presented along with some explanations or supplemental information. To that end, you can integrate Excel information into a Word document by copying the data from Excel into the Word document. You can include the Excel data in one of several ways. If the Excel information is static—that is, your data collection is complete and the numbers won’t change—you can insert the data into a Word document as a table or as text. If your data collection and analysis are still in progress and the information might change, you can link the data to the original Excel file ...