Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Project: Including a Custom Formatted Chart in a Report

In Chapter 7, "Templates, Wizards, and Add-Ins," you learned how templates can give you a huge jumpstart in creating reports, letters, and other documents. They can include boilerplate text, formatting, graphics, and other elements. In this project, you'll build on the Progress Report template you built in Chapter 7, adding a customized chart that updates automatically, based on the contents of an accompanying Excel worksheet.

Step #1: Open the template you want to use, from the File, Open dialog box.

Step #2: Copy the Excel data you want to use.

Open Excel, and open the worksheet containing the data you want to use. Next, drag the mouse pointer across the cells you want to use in your chart ...