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Step 1 - What is the Drawing Canvas ?

When you insert a drawing object or graphic a "drawing canvas" is placed around it for you.

The drawing canvas is intended to help you arrange your drawings in a document and it works well if your drawing consist of several shapes.

You can switch this off from (Tools > Options)(General tab)(Automatically create drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes

To link a worksheet cell range into a Word copy. Copy the cells. In Word select (Edit > Paste Special) select "Formatted Text (RTF)" and "Paste as link" This will display the numbers in a table form.

The best way to copy and paste an Excel chart into Word is ??

To link a worksheet cell range and just display the numbers, no table. Select (Edit > Paste Special) select "Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object" and "Paste as link" You are not able to format the table in Word with this method.

There is a restriction to how much data you can copy and paste from Excel into Word using the clipboard (what is it ??)

Drawing Canvas Toolbar

 Fit Drawing To Contents -

 Expand Drawing -

 Scale Drawing -

 Text Wrapping -