Adding Excel objects to a Word document

Business documents commonly include both:

• tables of data
• charts based on such tables

taken from spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. Adding such objects to a Word document is easier to do than you might think.

Consider the following objects, a table and a chart based on that table:

I copied these objects in Excel and pasted them in Word. It really was that easy! In fact:

• the table becomes a Word table in which you can insert rows and columns, add repeating header rows and make other adjustments
• the chart becomes an image that you can resize and otherwise handle like any other image.