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.
