How To Add, Attach or Insert A File in Microsoft Office Excel 2013 in 3 Easy Steps

For easy reference or information purpose, Microsoft Office Excel allows user to add, attach or insert the file into worksheet. It means that, the file can be opened and accessed together with Excel workbook. With attach files directly into Excel worksheet, user can shorten the productive time and minimize the corrupted link risk to related files which must be read together with the workbook or worksheet.

Here how to easily add or insert the file into Microsoft Office Excel 2013 worksheet:

1. Open Office Excel worksheet, and then go to “Insert” tab and click on “Object” option to insert an embedded object.
   
2. Next, a dialog window will pop up with two tabs which name “Create New” and “Create from File”. Click “Create from File” tab and browse for the selected file to insert into the Excel worksheet.
   
3. There are two options available when insert a file into Excel – Link to file or Display as icon. You may just tick on one of the check box for the option you preferred. If no box been selected, file content will be displayed.
   Link to file: Insert the contents of the file into the document and create a link to the original source file.
   Display as icon: Insert an icon that represents the content of the file into your worksheet.
4. If selected Display as icon option. Click on “Change Icon” to change the Caption Text and the icon for the inserted file. Click “OK” once done. A file will be inserted into the Excel worksheet with display as icon.
   

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