Office Tips
Copy Excel data to Word
There may be times when you want to present your Excel worksheet data in a Word document. You can simply copy selected data in Excel and then use the Paste or Paste Special commands in Word to insert the data into a document.
- In Excel, select the worksheet data that you want to copy to a Word document.
- On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Copy
.
Keyboard shortcut You can also press CTRL+C.
- In the Word document, click where you want to paste the copied worksheet data.
- On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click Paste.
Keyboard shortcut You can also press CTRL+V.
- Click Paste Options next to the data, and then do one of the following:
- To paste the data as a Word table, click Keep Source Formatting if you want to use the original format of the copied data, or click Match Destination Table Style if you want to use the document theme that is applied to the Word document.
- To paste the data as a static picture, click Paste as Picture.
- To paste a link to the Excel data so that the data in the Word document is updated when you change the original data in the Excel workbook, click Keep Source Formatting and Link to Excel or click Match Destination Table Style and Link to Excel.
- To paste the data as text, with each row in a separate paragraph and with tab spaces separating the cell values, click Keep Text Only.
Notes
- If you don't see the Paste Options button, you may have to turn it on. Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click Word Options. In the Advanced category, under Cut, Copy, and Paste, select the Show Paste Options buttons check box.
- If you paste the data into a Word table, the Paste Options button displays different paste options. You can insert the copied data as a nested table, merge it with the existing table, insert it as new rows in the existing table, overwrite the cells in the existing table, or paste it as a static picture.
- To paste the data as a Word table, click Keep Source Formatting if you want to use the original format of the copied data, or click Match Destination Table Style if you want to use the document theme that is applied to the Word document.
Tips
- To paste the data in another format (such as a worksheet object, HTML format, bitmap, picture, or to text format) or to paste a link to the source data in Excel, on the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow on the Paste button, and then click Paste Special. In the As list, click the format that you want to use.
- To edit the entire worksheet later, click Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object. To provide access to the entire worksheet in the Word document, including data that you may want to keep private, click Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object.
- To automatically update the table in the document when changes are made to the source data in Excel, click Paste link, and then select the option that you want in the As box. If you saved the source workbook before you copied the data, you can also click Word Hyperlink in the As box to insert a hyperlink in your document that directs you to the source data in Excel.
- To paste the content as an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Word application icon (rather than pasting the actual content), click Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object, and then select the Display as icon check box. You can click the icon to open the application and then view the content.
- To use HTML to copy the data to Word and display it in a Word table, click HTML format.
- To paste a static picture, click Bitmap, or to paste a picture that can be ungrouped, click Picture (Enhanced Metafile) or Picture (Windows Metafile).
- To paste the data as formatted or unformatted text, click Formatted Text (RTF), Unformatted Text, or Unformatted Unicode Text.
- To edit the entire worksheet later, click Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object. To provide access to the entire worksheet in the Word document, including data that you may want to keep private, click Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object.
- To paste the data as a hyperlink that directs you to the source data in Excel, click the arrow on the Paste button, and then click Paste As Hyperlink. If the workbook that contains the source data has not been saved yet, this option is unavailable.
- If you want the range of data that you paste as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object into a Word document to expand when the corresponding data expands on the Excel worksheet, you can define a name for the range of data in Excel before you copy the data. You can then paste a link to the named range by using the Paste Special command. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the arrow on the Paste button, click Paste Special, and then click Paste link.