Right-click on the icon and select Format Object. If it doesn’t fit, either resize the icon or the cell so that the icon is within the cell. The position of the icon would not change if you change the cells below it.įor example, when you place the icon within a cell, it would not move with the cells and would not get filtered, sorted, or hidden with the cells.Īs shown below, if you hide the cell that has the PDF file, it doesn’t hide the PDF. When you embed a PDF file in Excel, it is inserted as an object that sits above the worksheet cells. To insert multiple PDFs, follow the same steps (as shown above). The PDF icon inserted using the above steps is an object (just like charts or shapes) and you can resize it and place it anywhere in the worksheet. You can close the PDF file and continue to work with Excel. These steps would insert a PDF file in the worksheet.Īs soon as the PDF is inserted in the worksheet, it also gets opened by default. Select the PDF file that you want to embed and click on Open. Note that you need to have Adobe Reader installed on your system for Adobe object to appear in the list. In the Object dialog box, select the ‘Create New’ tab and the select ‘Adobe Acrobat Document’ from the list. Go to Insert tab and click on the Object icon in the Text group. Here are the steps to embed a PDF File in Excel: How to Embed a PDF File in an Excel Worksheet How to Embed a PDF File in an Excel Worksheet. You may need to add your headings manually. The data entered in the Excel file properly with one exception, the headings do not normally copy over. Now select the data that is in your Word file and press Ctrl C and then go to your Excel file and select the first cell and press Ctrl V. If for some reason it does not put it in a table then you select the data in the Word Document and go to the insert tab and click on the drop-down under insert table and select Convert text to table. 
When the Word file is open you press Ctrl V and it automatically puts the data in a table. Then you are going to go to open up a Word File. You go to your PDF file and select the data. The method that works well has an additional step to the process. It will put all the data in the first column. Then you would go to the first cell on the Excel sheet and paste. In this circumstance, when the original document was in Excel, there is a method of returning to an Excel format.Īs a frequent user of the copy and paste technique, you would go and select the data in the PDF file and copy it. Many times people are concerned with security and send you information in a PDF format.
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