How do I insert a file in Word 2010?

Steve Hayes

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Mar 24, 2012, 8:51:57 AM3/24/12

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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.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Mar 24, 2012, 10:12:24 AM3/24/12

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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.

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Steve Hayes

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Mar 24, 2012, 3:39:36 PM3/24/12

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On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:12:24 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbar...@mvps.org>
wrote:

>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

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Mar 25, 2012, 8:31:19 AM3/25/12

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

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Stefan Blom

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Mar 25, 2012, 9:18:31 AM3/25/12

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

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Daddy

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Mar 26, 2012, 1:06:37 PM3/26/12

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On 3/25/2012 8:31 AM, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> 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

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Mar 26, 2012, 2:09:22 PM3/26/12

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> 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? :-)

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Steve Hayes

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Mar 27, 2012, 4:23:24 AM3/27/12

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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

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Mar 27, 2012, 8:40:57 AM3/27/12

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On 3/27/2012 4:23 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:06:37 -0400, Daddy<da...@invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/25/2012 8:31 AM, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> 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

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Mar 27, 2012, 7:05:19 PM3/27/12

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

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Steve Hayes

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Mar 28, 2012, 1:03:43 AM3/28/12

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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:05:19 +0200, "Stefan Blom"
<Stefa...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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

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

Stefan Blom

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Mar 28, 2012, 5:48:22 PM3/28/12

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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.

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