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.
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Click Create from File if you already have a chart available, then hit Browse.
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Find your file and open it up.
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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.
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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.
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If you didn’t choose to link to file, you can double-click the chart to edit it directly.
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The next example shown below has an actual chart in it with data values.
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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.
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