Using OLE to insert an AutoCAD drawing into Word

Here's another easy way to insert an AutoCAD drawing using OLE. Open the drawing in AutoCAD, then copy the drawing (or whichever part of the drawing you need) to the Clipboard. Now open Word and select Edit/Paste Special. You should see the AutoCAD Drawing Object in the Paste Special dialog box. With this selection highlighted, click OK. Now position the drawing in the document by dragging it to the desired location. In addition, you can use the Crop tool on the Picture toolbar to get rid of excess white space, and drag the corner handles to expand or shrink the image to suit your document. Using this method also allows you to edit the embedded drawing by double-clicking on the drawing in the Word document.

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