You can now make changes to the data or alter the chart formatting. If you embedded the chart, you can double-click it inside the Word document to open Excel inside Microsoft Word. You can resize it, crop it and adjust its brightness and contrast using the tools on the Picture toolbar. If you created the chart as a picture then you can treat it just as you would any picture in a Word document. To link the chart, choose Paste Link > Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object.To embed the chart, choose Paste > Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object and click OK.To paste the chart as a picture choose Paste > Picture (Enhanced Metafile) and click OK.

Switch to Microsoft Word and choose Edit > Paste Special.

Click in the Excel workbook, select the chart and choose Edit > Copy.

Open both the Excel workbook and the Word document.

The following steps illustrate how to place an Excel chart inside a Word document, by linking, embedding or inserting the chart as a picture. You can view and update links inside a Word document using the Edit > Links dialog. If the original chart changes, you would need to copy and paste the chart again as a picture if you want the version in your Word document to be updated too. There is one additional option available and you can paste an Excel chart in a Word document as a picture. When you’re done, click outside the chart and the Word tool bars and buttons reappear. When you do, Microsoft Word opens a version of Excel inside its own interface letting you work on the worksheet inside your Word document. You can update the chart in the Word document manually by double-clicking on the chart. If the chart in the original Excel workbook changes, it won’t automatically update the chart in the Word document. The downside of embedding is that you no longer have a link between the chart in the Word document and the original workbook stored on your disk. This makes the Word document much larger but it does ensure that if you send the Word document to someone, the Excel workbook goes with it. When you embed an Excel chart in a Word document, the entire Excel workbook is embedded inside the Word document.

Linking is a better choice when you don’t intend to send the Word document anywhere. When you insert a chart as a picture, it’s a fixed image and will never update or change.

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