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 ...

Master linking and embedding techniques to keep your Word documents updated with live Excel data effortlessly.

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.

There are pros and cons to simple pastes, pasting a worksheet image, embedding the worksheet, or linking to it in your Word doc.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.

If your source data is in Excel and has duplicates, run Power Query to remove those duplicates before running a Word mail merge.