How To Embed Pdf In Excel For Mac
Post updated on : May 2020
Applicability: Excel 2019, 2016 and earlier versions; Windows 7, 8& 10 and macOS.
Select the 'Create from File' tab, then click the 'Browse' button to select your target PDF file. And you can select the option of 'Display as an Icon' in the excel file. When you want to open embedded PDF in excel, you can double click the PDF document, and it will be opened by your default PDF program directly. First, go to Ms Excel and click on Insert – Object. Then choose the type of Object, in this case we have Adobe Acrobat PDF document. Another option is to choose Display as icon if you want the PDF file to be represented with an Adobe PDF icon, not as a whole page. If you don’t choose this option, only the first page of the PDF file will be.
Here’s a question from Dana:
- I want to embed a PDF files in cells in Excel 2011 on a Mac. I'm compiling a house list, and I want to embed the receipts as clickable links in the list. We work in dropbox, so linking the files is not an option, as the links only work on my computer. Is there a way to embed the PDFs so that the one excel file holds all of the information?
- Jan 12, 2020 Sometimes it's helpful to include a table in a Microsoft Word document but Word tables have limitations. Microsoft Excel, on the other hand, creates extensive tables of information involving complex mathematical calculations.Make Excel data part of your Word document. When you insert Excel data into Word, decide whether to link the Excel worksheet to the document or embed it.
Working on a quarterly operational report for management. I have a nice spreadsheet with some sales information that i would like to insert into a Word document that i am authoring. Any ideas?
Thanks for the question, Dana. See below for the details. I assumed you are using Windows, but just in case, i have added some pointers for MAC users below.
If you are looking at inserting Word files into Excel, take a look at our tutorial on embedding Word objects into a spreadsheet.
The entire step-by-step details can be found in the following video we created:
Embed an Excel table in Word
Note: This option will allow you to embed a screenshot of your spreadsheet, which you won’t be able to later on edit/modify. For a “live” spreadsheet option, kindly scroll down.
- Open your Excel document.
- Select the area / range that you would like to add into Word, right click and hit Copy or press CTRL+C.
- Now, go ahead and open the Word document in which you would like to insert the Excel range, then right click and hit paste or go ahead and press CTRL+V.
Embed a “live” spreadsheet in Word
- Open your Word document, where your Excel spreadsheet has to be placed.
- Click on the Insert in the ribbon and select Object in the Text section.
- Select the Create from file and browse to your excel document which has to be inserted.
- Click OK.
Insert Excel file as an attachment
In a similar fashion you can embed a link to your Excel file into your Word document:
- Navigate to the place in your document that you want to place the link to your workbook.
- Hit Insert.
- Then select Object.
- Using the Browse button , navigate and point to the file stored in your computer that you would like to attach.
- Then hit the Link to File and Display as Icon checkboxes, to embed a link to your file into your doc.
- Hit OK.
Edit an inserted Excel range in Word
- In your Word document, double click on the Excel table you inserted before.
- Adjust the range height and width to fit your table into your Word page and edit the content as needed.
Adding other files into Word
So far, we have learnt how to embed Excel workbooks and ranges into Microsoft Word. That said, you are able add additional file types into your document, such as: Presentations, diagrams and another documents. Read further for ta simple example:
- Open your Word document.
- In the Ribbon, hit the Insert tab and select Object.
- In the Create New option, pick the required Object type to embed into your Word document.
- In our case, we’ll go ahead and insert a PowerPoint presentation.
- Once, you select the object you would like to insert, hit OK.
- Now we can edit with the new presentation slide embedded in Word 2016.
Inserting spreadsheets in Word for macOS
If you are using Word fin your MAC, you can insert existing spreadsheets into your documents as well. Procedure is similar to the one we outlined before for Windows.
- Open Microsoft Word and navigate to your document.
- Pick the location into which you would like to add your spreadsheet content.
- Hit Insert, and select Object.
- The following dialog will be opened:
- Hit From file… and select the Excel workbook that has the content you would like to embed.
- Hit Insert.
- Now go ahead and adjust the placement, height and weight of your embedded worksheet.
- Once done, save your spreadsheet (File>>Save or Command + S).
Note that on Word for MAC OSX you are not able to embed “live” PowerPoint Presentations ; however you can embed other documents into your Word files.
How to insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel?
Sometimes you want to embed an Outlook email message in a workbook. You may think of copy the email content and paste into workbook. However, after copying and pasting the email message from Outlook in Excel, the message is getting mess and total out of formatting. Actually, you can embed the email message as an object into the workbook as follows:
insert or embed an Outlook message in Excel as an object
1. Firstly, you need to save an Outlook email which you need to insert into worksheet. Please select the email message in the Mail List in Outlook, then click File > Save As. And in the Save As dialog box, specify a folder for saving the email message, enter a name for the email as you need in the File name box, keep the Outlook Message Format - Unicode option in the Save as type drop-down list, and finally click the Save button. See screenshot:
2. Go to the Microsoft Excel workbook and open the worksheet that you will embed the email message in, then click te Insert > Object.
3. In the Object dialog box, go to the Create from file tab, click the Browser button to find and select the email message that you haved saved in Step 1. After selecting the email message and rerurning to the Object dialog box, click the OK button. See screenshot:
Then the specified email message is inserted into current worksheet as the following screenshot shown:
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Note: In the Object dialog box, it is optional to check the Link to file option and the Display as icon option.
If you check the Link to file option in the Object dialog box, you will get an email message embedded in current worksheet as below screenshot shown, and the embedded email can be opened with double clicking.
If you check the Display as icon option in the Object dialog box, you will get an icon embedded in current worksheet as the following screenshot shown, and it also can be opened with double clicking.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Is there a way to do this with Excel in Microsoft Teams? As far as I know, this feature is NOT supported in Excel in Teams.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Perfect instructions on how to link an email to a spreadsheet. Thank you!
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Can you please share the trick to embed an email from outlook directly.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Why so complicated???
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.thanks!!! its a great help for me.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Shift/print screen then paste in the cell.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Dear Thanks its work 8)
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Saqib - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Ray, thanks! That is way faster then the other options.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Hi people,
Has anybody faced the condition as below? My colleagues will paste a 'table'(the information i requested from them) into the text paste in the mail textbox, i will then copy the whole table and paste it into the excel. So, in the end , whenever i open the excel file , its will always prompt me and error message that it will close it for me and 'recover' the file for me. The file is never able to be opened. And, my IT department claimed that the file is being corrupted. But, i think that it is not about the file being corrupted. What do you guys thing ? - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Nice guide but my question. When you add a file to your worksheet like you did, does that mean that i can open that file on another computer (for example in another country as we have more offices) or does it only link to a location on my computer?
I need it to be inside the worksheet so everyone can acces the 'file' regardless of their location. is that possible?
Thx and good health- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Yes. When you paste the Outlook messaging into the embedded Word object inside your Excel spreadsheet, it is embedded in the document, not a link to a file. So as you pass the file around to different computers, each will see the embedded file.
Hope this helps.
Ray- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Is there a way to actually put the e-mail in a cell of the spreadsheet?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Can you put an e-mail in a particular cell of a spreadsheet?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Why the envelope icon doesn't appears?, I am on the six step and haven't selected any of the next two options.
Regards. - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Here's another way. To avoid the intermediate use of MS Word, insert a Word object within your excel spreadsheet (Insert, Object, Create New, select MS Word Document). When you double click on the Word object, it engages Word to the extent that you can copy/paste an Outlook email into the Word portion of your Excel file, thus bypassing the additional step of copying to Word first, then moving it to Excel.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Could you please show us step by step on how to perform the task.
Thanks,- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.In Excel (I am on version 2010):
* Place your cursor within your Excel file where you desire to embed a Word object.
* Click on the INSERT menu item
* Then click on OBJECT in the ribbon bar
* A dialog box is displayed that has a tab, CREATE NEW; select this tab
* In the list of object types, scroll to locate and select 'Microsoft Word Document'; make sure 'Display as Icon' is unchecked
* Then click OK
You now have a Word object embedded in Excel. You are able to type into this object just as if you were in MS Word. When you click away from the object, you will still see the object, with a box around it, and whatever text you entered. To get back into the Word document, double click on the object and begin entering desired text.
In my case, I created a table in the Word object, one column to type in the name of someone, and the adjacent column to paste the Outlook message.
In Outlook, in the Mail main screen, click on the desired email message. Right click on the message and select COPY. This copies the email message to the clipboard. Then go back to your Excel file, in the Word object (double click the object to open up Word), right click, then select PASTE. The result will be an icon representing your email message. Then when you subsequently double click on the message icon, the email message will be displayed.
Hope this helps.
Ray
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I have embedded emails into a work book, but now I want to be able to sort and filter the data (there is more than just the embedded email in the work book. I am finding when I sort the data, even when clicking 'expend the selection' the emails will not sort with the rest of the data. Can someone help?
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.If you copy and paste into Word then cut and paste into the cell you are wanting the file to go to, it will be sortable.
It makes my life easier, or at least I hope it will. :D
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you.It was so easy. May Allah bless you.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Allah isnt real so he won't be blessing anybody
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Robin, it must be awesome to be so confident in knowing all there is to know about the big picture! Quantum physicists are still freaking out trying to make sense of the laws at that level of reality. You should contact them and clear up their confusion!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.God isn't real too, so he will not be blessing anybody also
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Robin, your comment was definitely uncalled for, no matter what you believe.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.For me it's quicker to just drag the email from Outlook into a blank Word doc, then copy (Ctr+C) the embedded file in the Word doc and paste (Ctrl+V) the file in Excel. Close the Word doc without saving, or if you're using an already open Word doc, just delete the embedded email from there.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Tom,
Too bad that you can't copy / paste an Outlook email into Excel the same way you do in Word, to avoid using Word as an intervening application.