How to Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to insert Excel charts into Word 2016.


To get started, go under the Insert tab and click Object.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

Click Create from File if you already have a chart available, then hit Browse.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

Find your file and open it up.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

Choose your preference. You can link to the file if you want. If you select this option, changes you make on either side will update the other.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

Double-clicking the chart opens it up in a separate window if you linked to a file. In this instance, the file I linked was one on OneDrive.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

If you didn’t choose to link to file, you can double-click the chart to edit it directly.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

The next example shown below has an actual chart in it with data values.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016

A nice feature of these Excel Charts is that you can have a separate table of data off to the side to create a graph from. Then simply scroll over until it is not showing, and what you want shown is on the Excel chart.

 Insert Excel Charts into Word 2016