Insert graphic from PowerPoint/Excel (into body text)

You can insert graphics from PowerPoint or Excel into the body text of your Word document at a location of your choice:

A detailed explanation of the individual steps

This is how you insert graphics from PowerPoint/Excel (into body text):

1. Place the cursor at the position in your Word document where you want to insert the graphic.

2. In the “*Content” tab, click on the “Insert” menu in the “Graphic” group and select “from PowerPoint...”.
   → The following dialog shows the already linked and open PowerPoint files:

1. Files that are currently open on your desktop are displayed as “Open”.

2. Files that you have already used to import objects into your Word document are displayed as “Linked”.

3. You can add documents by clicking the “Additional files” button or dragging the files directly to the corresponding button.

4. Select the Excel file from which the data is to be inserted (“Data source”).

5. Select the graphics that you want to insert into your Word document. You can see a preview of the selected graphics in the right-hand window.

1. If you enable the “Including Microsoft Office graphics object” option, linkgraphics automatically imports the diagram’s automatically generated elements from the spreadsheet into the Word document.

2. If you disable this option, the elements are ignored as auxiliary graphics when imported.

6. Click “OK” to confirm your selection.
   → The graphic will be inserted.

	Good to know
	Give your PowerPoint slides titles to find your graphics more quickly in the graphics selection.

See also

Insert graphics
Insert a graphic
Insert a graphic into body text
Insert graphic into a table
Insert graphic directly from Excel (into body text)

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