You might have a college paper where another paper you’ve written can provide insight or a business report where a financial PDF would help. Maybe you have an article where a media file would be ideal. Whatever you’re creating, we’ll show you how to embed a file into a Word document using the steps below.
How to Embed a File in Microsoft Word
You can embed almost any file type into a Word document and display it as an icon or link. To do this, insert an object. Place your cursor in the document where you want to embed the file and follow these steps.
To show how the embedded file displays, here’s a screenshot with the same file as a link, an icon, and with neither Link to File nor Display as icon selected. Note that if you insert a link to the file, you may see a small icon for the file type or associated application.
To open the embedded file, double-click the icon or the link.
How to Insert Text From a File in Word
Some people also consider “embedding a file” as inserting the file’s contents into a document. We’ll explain how to insert text from another file in Word. Here’s how: The contents of the file will appear in your Word document. As you can see in the screenshot below, we inserted text from the file on the left into our document on the right.
Embedding a File in Word for Easy Access
You can easily embed a file in Word using the steps we’ve outlined above. This could be a media file containing audio or video or text from a PDF or a TXT text file. You can even embed PowerPoint slides into Word or add Excel data to your Word pages directly. For more, take a look at how to follow hyperlinks in Word or how to insert an Excel table into word with VBA. Keep up with future tutorials by connecting with us on Twitter or Facebook! Comment Name * Email *
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