From the course: Microsoft Data: SharePoint, Power Platform, Access, Excel

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- [Instructor] Often, when people need to share information that already exists inside an Excel worksheet into a Word or PowerPoint document, well, the chances are they're doing it the hard way. They create extra work, set themselves up for errors, and just generally fail to take advantage of the power of the tools. For example, you have this Excel data which needs to be shared every week in a report. Now, you could manually build the table and copy the information over, but what if it changes? You have to manually update it every week. I've also seen people just take screenshots of the Excel table and paste that into the document. That also needs to be manually fixed on a regular basis. The right way to do this, on the Insert tab of the ribbon menu, look for the Object icon, and this will be the same for both Word or PowerPoint. The problem is it's a little bit difficult to find, it's not super obvious, so you may have to…

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