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:
This is how you insert graphics from PowerPoint/Excel (into body text):
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Place the cursor at the position in your Word document where you want to insert the graphic.
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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: -
Files that are currently open on your desktop are displayed as “Open”.
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Files that you have already used to import objects into your Word document are displayed as “Linked”.
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You can add documents by clicking the “Additional files” button or dragging the files directly to the corresponding button.
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Select the Excel file from which the data is to be inserted (“Data source”).
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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.
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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.
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If you disable this option, the elements are ignored as auxiliary graphics when imported.
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Click “OK” to confirm your selection.
→ The graphic will be inserted.
Good to know
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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)