Link or Embed The terms that Microsoft uses for putting an object from one application inside another are linking and embedding. When you link a chart from an Excel worksheet to a Word document, the ...

Link or Embed Data Open the Excel worksheet from which you want to extract data as well as the Word document into which you want to insert or embed the data.

Launch Microsoft Excel and open the Excel spreadsheet you want to import Word document data into. Click the Insert tab, then click the "Object" button on the Ribbon.