Trish,

If the employee and the recipients are using xl 97 then "Office Binder"
provides the functionality you desire.
However, the office suite was "improved" in later versions by removing
the Binder utility.

You could copy the word document and insert it into Excel worksheet
as an icon. Then the recipient can double- click the icon to automatically
open Word with the document displayed.

Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA

"Trish" wrote in message
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I'd like to know if it's possible to have Excel spreadsheets and Word
documents all in the same file. For example, one of my employees updates a
particular spreadsheet monthly and also sends out a memo with the Excel data.
Instead of having two separate files, can they be grouped?

Thanks