If you usually work with office suites, such as Office, you are probably used to discovering new functionalities in each of its programs. At the same time, it is evident that word processors play a fundamental role in these packages, and that they are among the most used on a daily basis. Therefore, if you want to enrich your documents or facilitate access to other content, you must learn how to embed a file in word.
Basically, this tutorial that we are going to review below is useful for those people who, in the middle of writing Word, remember that they have some other file stored on their computer, which could be a good reference for the reader of the document. Fortunately, those files can be embedded in Word.
![embed Word 2 file](https://wpdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/How-to-embed-a-file-in-Microsoft-Word.jpg)
How to embed a file in Microsoft Word step by step?
Well, the first thing you should know is that you can embed any type of file in a Word document. Or, well, almost any type of file. And when you do, it will look like an icon or lace, depending on the case.
- Click on the point in the document where you are going to embed that file
- Click on the Insert tab and then on Object in the Text section of the ribbon
- When the Object window opens, go to the Create from file tab and click Browse
- You will have to locate the file in question, select it and click on Insert, adding a name to it
- On the right, you can choose whether to display it as a link or an icon, whichever you prefer
- Once you have finished with everything, you have to click OK
- Then choose Create from file to embed a file
After that, whenever you want to see the content of the embedded file, you will have to double click on the icon or link that has been created. This will work even when you save, close, and reopen the document.
![embed Word 3 file](https://wpdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1634940609_797_How-to-embed-a-file-in-Microsoft-Word.jpg)
And how to insert text from a file?
Eventually, when it comes to “embedding a file,” what you really want to do is insert the contents of the file into a document. There is also a tutorial for that, so don’t despair at all.
- Click on the point in the document where you are going to embed that file
- Click on the Insert tab and then on Object in the Text section of the ribbon
- When the Object window opens, select Text from File to embed content in Word
- Automatically, the text content will appear inside your Word, and you will be able to edit it as you always do.
In this simple way, whenever you want you will be able to embed files in Word, so that they look like icons or links or, directly, so that their text content is added to what you have written.