How do I insert a file in Word 2010?

[Steve Hayes]

How do I insert a file in the current document in Word 2010?

In Word 97 it was easy.

Insert ---> File

But "file" doesn't appear in the new ribbon. And typing "Insert file" in the
help window produces nothing relevant.

I suppose I could always convert the docx documents to doc, perform the
operation in Word 97, and then co nvert them back to .docx, but that seems a
bit cumbersome.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It is far from obvious, but Insert | Text | Object | Text from File opens
the familiar Insert File dialog. Note that Object is a split button; be sure
you click on the arrow beside it (which drops a menu), not the button
itself, which opens the Insert Object dialog.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Steve Hayes]

It is far from obvious, but Insert | Text | Object | Text from File opens
the familiar Insert File dialog. Note that Object is a split button; be sure
you click on the arrow beside it (which drops a menu), not the button
itself, which opens the Insert Object dialog.

Wow, they're really good at hiding stuff!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

All this in the name of making Word's features "more discoverable." <g>

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

Some things apparently aren't meant to be discovered... <g>

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
All this in the name of making Word's features "more discoverable." <g>

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Daddy]

All this in the name of making Word's features "more discoverable." <g>

I actually feel that the ribbon does make features more discoverable,
since more of them are exposed to view.

The problem, IMO, is that by now Word has /so many/ features that even
with the ribbon, we still need to dig sometimes to find what we want.
And with the ribbon, one person's 'logical place' is another's twisted
logic.

Daddy

 

[Stefan Blom]

I actually feel that the ribbon does make features more discoverable,

since more of them are exposed to view.

But isn't that because the ribbon fills the space of two toolbars?

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Daddy" wrote in message

All this in the name of making Word's features "more discoverable." <g>

I actually feel that the ribbon does make features more discoverable,
since more of them are exposed to view.

The problem, IMO, is that by now Word has /so many/ features that even
with the ribbon, we still need to dig sometimes to find what we want.
And with the ribbon, one person's 'logical place' is another's twisted
logic.

Daddy

 

[Steve Hayes]

I actually feel that the ribbon does make features more discoverable,
since more of them are exposed to view.

The problem, IMO, is that by now Word has /so many/ features that even
with the ribbon, we still need to dig sometimes to find what we want.
And with the ribbon, one person's 'logical place' is another's twisted
logic.

In the case of this one, apart from being well hidden, it was rather
confusing, and led me to think that if I wanted to import a file it would be
inserted in a text box.

But the biggest problem is that "Insert file" finds nothing in the help file.

 

[Daddy]

In the case of this one, apart from being well hidden, it was rather
confusing, and led me to think that if I wanted to import a file it would be
inserted in a text box.

But the biggest problem is that "Insert file" finds nothing in the help file.

Bingo on the Help file. Even when connected to Microsoft's website, the
'help' is very little help indeed.

Daddy

 

[Stefan Blom]

Searching directly at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ will be more
useful. Or search via Google (you can specify site:microsoft.com or
siteffice.com to reduce the number of hits).

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Daddy" wrote in message

In the case of this one, apart from being well hidden, it was rather
confusing, and led me to think that if I wanted to import a file it would
be
inserted in a text box.

But the biggest problem is that "Insert file" finds nothing in the help
file.

Bingo on the Help file. Even when connected to Microsoft's website, the
'help' is very little help indeed.

Daddy

 

[Steve Hayes]

Searching directly at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ will be more
useful. Or search via Google (you can specify site:microsoft.com or
siteffice.com to reduce the number of hits).

But rewriting the "help" file to make it more helpful would be better.

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm not sure the help file is so bad, even in recent versions of Word. The
difficult part is finding the relevant articles when searching it--from
within Word that is.

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Steve Hayes" wrote in message

Searching directly at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ will be more
useful. Or search via Google (you can specify site:microsoft.com or
siteffice.com to reduce the number of hits).

But rewriting the "help" file to make it more helpful would be better.