Select the data in the spreadsheet and copy it. Go to the Word document and in the Edit menu pick Paste Special and Paste Link. A link will be established so that when the spreadsheet changes, the data in the word processing document will also change.
Is an external excel spreadsheet linked into a word document considered a compoound document in the microsoft enviroment?
yes
Sure. Why not?
An external document usually is a document that was not created by the application you are using, or a completely separate document to the one you are using. You may want to link to it in some way or import some of its data into your current document.
If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.If you do a Paste Link, then there will be a connection maintained between the Word document and the Excel Workbook.
yes
A Word doc with a linked spreadsheet is usually called a 'Compound Document'.
You can use a hyperlink to link from a Word document to an Excel document. Select the text you want to act as the link and press Ctrl-K. You can then find the excel workbook you want to link to. You can also copy from an Excel document and paste as a hyperlink, using Paste As Hyperlink in the Word document. This can link to a specific point in the Excel Workbook. You can also do a Paste Link to maintain a connection between the two files, so that when there are changes in the Excel workbook, they will be seen in the Word document.
If you do a regular copy and paste, then the chart in the Word document will not change if the data in the Excel spreadsheet does. If you want it to always represent the data as it is the Excel document when it is changed, then you need to link the chart in the Word document to the spreadsheet. You can do it using the Paste Link facility.
It is still an Excel spreadsheet. The workbook does not change, just because it is linked to another document to form a compound document.
Excel and Word can be integrated. You can have some of the spreadsheet appear as a table in Word. If you set a link between them, then when Excel updates, so will the Word document. Word does have the facilities to do its own calcuations in tables, but they are limited and so Excel is better. So if you want the figures in a Word document and to keep them up to date as they change in the Excel document, then a link is the way to do it. You would copy the data you want in Excel, and then do a Paste Link in the Word document.