Link or Embed The terms that Microsoft uses for putting an object from one application inside another are linking and embedding. When you link a chart from an Excel worksheet to a Word document, the ...

It is straightforward to insert a chart in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. You show a chart, lines, graph, area, bar, radar, treemap, or anything else – everything is possible.

Microsoft Word contains tools to produce colorful, professional looking graphs. A general Area chart that has curves are useful for showing how data values change over time.

Launch Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and open the spreadsheet that contains the data you want to insert into the Word document. Press "Ctrl-A" to select the entire spreadsheet.